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I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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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 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 love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
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Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
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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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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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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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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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I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.
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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
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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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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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When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
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