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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
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Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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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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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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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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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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Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
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I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
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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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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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