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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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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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The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
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My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
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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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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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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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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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I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
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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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Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
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If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
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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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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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I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal work.
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