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I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
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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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Average is Your Enemy.
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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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We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.
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At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
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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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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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It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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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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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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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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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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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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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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My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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