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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
Podcaster
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.
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My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
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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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Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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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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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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If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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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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