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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

Lance Armstrong

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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
Autobiographer
Podcaster
Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sport Cyclist
Triathlete
Plano
Texas
Lance Edward Armstrong
Lance Edward Gunderson
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It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
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So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.
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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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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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I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
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What ever your 100% looks like, give it.
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Average is Your Enemy.
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Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
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Fear is priceless education.
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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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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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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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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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The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
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I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
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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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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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