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Lance Armstrong

Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Armstrong is the 1993 professional world champion, and won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005. However, in 2012, he was banned from sanctioned Olympic sports for life as a result of long-term doping offenses. As part of those sanctions, all results going back to August 1998, including his seven Tour wins, were voided.

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There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Phoned, Preparation, Process, Winning

The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

Believe, Cycling, Dream, Say, Sorry, Thing

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.

Children, Fight, Inspirational, Like, Percentages, Sports

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

Cycling, Road, Spectators, Sports

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

Contrite, Justify, Say, Sorry, Trying

I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily.

Advertise, Advertised, Level, Levels, May, People

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Flawed, Invent, Mistake, Sorry, Trying

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

Causes, Like You, Ride, Tour, Win, Winning

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

Chasing, Cycling, Doe, Keep, Records

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.

Air, Moon, Nineteen, Rocks

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

Decision, Imperfect, Team, Whole

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

Hard, Joints, Marathon, Marathons, Pain, Pounding

We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.

Early, Race, Strong, Weak, Would Be

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

100M, Dollar, Dollars, Lost, Nobody, Sorry

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

Anywhere, Athlete, Athletes, Childhood, Poking, Race

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

Book, Covers, Funny, Men, Thinking, World

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

Believed, Book, Christian, Day, Judging, Reply

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

Attack, Encouraging, Girl, Live, Strong, Thing

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery. . . Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

Cancer, Children, Cynical, Natural, Wonder

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.

Die, Dying, Lose, Race, Sick

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