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When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
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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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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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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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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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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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