Lance Armstrong Quotes

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Lance Armstrong

Profession : Cyclist

Birth : September 18, 1971

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

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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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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

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I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

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Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

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Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

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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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If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

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Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

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Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

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Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

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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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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

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