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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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Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
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There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
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I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
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When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
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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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The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
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If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
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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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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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Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
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Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
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Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
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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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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.
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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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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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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
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