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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
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Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
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When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
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If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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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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So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.
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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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I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things stretching and abdominal work.
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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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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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Fear is priceless education.
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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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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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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 there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
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The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.
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When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.
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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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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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