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It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
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The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
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On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.
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Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.
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Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
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