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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
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It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
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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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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
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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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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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What ever your 100% looks like, give it.
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I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
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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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My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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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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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure I did it for the pain.
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Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
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We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.
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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 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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