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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.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
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Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
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Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
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If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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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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