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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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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 you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
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Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
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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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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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My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
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For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.
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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
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