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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

Lance Armstrong

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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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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
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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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During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.
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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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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 body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
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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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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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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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