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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
Podcaster
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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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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My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
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Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.
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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
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I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
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The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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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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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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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
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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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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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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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I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
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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've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.
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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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