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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

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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
Lance Edward Gunderson
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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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The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to 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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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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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 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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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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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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When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
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It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
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