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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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Professional Road Racing Cyclist
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Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
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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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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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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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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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What is stronger, fear or hope?
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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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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My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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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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If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
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It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
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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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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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At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
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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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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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