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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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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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So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.
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I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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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 have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.
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I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.
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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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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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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
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It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
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People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.
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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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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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