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Lance Edward Armstrong (born 18 September 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Armstrong had been declared winner of the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times between 1999 and 2005, before being disqualified from each of those races and banned from cycling for life for doping offenses by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) in 2012.
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Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.
Every Second Counts (2003)
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.
By fight I mean arm yourself with all the available information, get second opinions, third opinions, and fourth opinions.
How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.
Every Second Counts (2003)
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.
Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France.
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
ET Magazine (2004)
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.
No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.
My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.
I want all of you to know that I intend to beat this disease. And further, I intend to ride again as a professional cyclist.
Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.
I wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs.
All their players tested positive... for being assholes.
What if I had lost? What if I relapsed and the cancer came back? I still believe I would have gained something in the struggle, because in what time I had left I would have been a more complete, compassionate, and intelligent man, and therefore more alive.
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.
I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets — this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So Vive le Tour forever!
It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.