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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
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There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
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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 doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
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Fear is priceless education.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.
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If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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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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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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The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
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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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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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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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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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My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
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