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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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Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
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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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If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
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It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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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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I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99
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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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Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.
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My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
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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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