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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.

— Lance Armstrong

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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.

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