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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

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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
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Texas
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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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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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 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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I tried to control the narrative.
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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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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
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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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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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 will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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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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