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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've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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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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My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
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Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
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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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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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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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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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