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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
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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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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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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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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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