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That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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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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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
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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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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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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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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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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 truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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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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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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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
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