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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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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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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.
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When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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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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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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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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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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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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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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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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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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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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I tried to control the narrative.
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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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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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