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All their players tested positive... for being assholes.

— Lance Armstrong

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About the French 2006 FIFA World Cup team during his speech at the ESPY Awards, as quoted in "Armstrong accuses France World Cup team of being 'assholes'" in The Guardian (16 July 2006); he later commented on his use of profanity: "If they'd lived with me and heard me at home, they'd know it was a step down.."

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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.

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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.

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.

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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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