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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
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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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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
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I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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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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Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
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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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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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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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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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During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
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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 am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal work.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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