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

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
Podcaster
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
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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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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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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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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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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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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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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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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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We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.
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I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.
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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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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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It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
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Fear is priceless education.
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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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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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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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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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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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