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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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The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
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Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
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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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If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
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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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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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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 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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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
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I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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