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Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.
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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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The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
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It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
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I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.
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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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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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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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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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