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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
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Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
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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 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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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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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
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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.
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