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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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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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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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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
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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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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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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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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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I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal work.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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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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If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
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It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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