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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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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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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
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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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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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I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
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If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.
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If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
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I still don't get golf.
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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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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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Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
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What is stronger, fear or hope?
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I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
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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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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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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
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Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
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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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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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