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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.
Lance Armstrong
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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure I did it for the pain.
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The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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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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No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
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The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
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I tried to control the narrative.
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I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
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My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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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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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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Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
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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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