Lance Armstrong quotes - page 2

What ever your 100% looks like, give it. (Lance Armstrong)
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem. View quote
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I'm a flawed character... I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times. View quote
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During our lives... we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope. View quote
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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! View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. View quote
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I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. View quote
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Lance Armstrong: How bad do you want to win a stage in the Tour de France? Floyd Landis: Real bad. Armstrong: How fast can you go down hill? Landis: I go downhill real fast. Can I do it? Armstrong: Sure you can do it ... run like you stole something Floyd. View quote
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A life spent defensively, worried, is a life wasted. (Lance Armstrong)
How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. View quote
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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. View quote
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I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today. View quote
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No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. View quote
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My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering. View quote
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Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. View quote
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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. View quote
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By fight I mean arm yourself with all the available information, get second opinions, third opinions, and fourth opinions. View quote
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence. View quote
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The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. (Lance Armstrong)
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do. View quote
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