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If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

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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
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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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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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Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
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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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Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.
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I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
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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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The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
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Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.
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I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
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