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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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Lance Armstrong
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: September 18
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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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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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What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
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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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I tried to control the narrative.
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What ever your 100% looks like, give it.
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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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I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
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When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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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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Average is Your Enemy.
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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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Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.
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The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
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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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I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
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