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Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
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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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It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
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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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I tried to control the narrative.
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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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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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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I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal 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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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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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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When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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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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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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