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Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.
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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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I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal work.
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I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
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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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If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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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 have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.
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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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