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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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 tried to control the narrative.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.
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Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
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That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.
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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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The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
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Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
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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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At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
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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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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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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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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
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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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