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It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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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 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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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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It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
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I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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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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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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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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If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
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Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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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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On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
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What is stronger, fear or hope?
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