Lance Armstrong Short Quotes

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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

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We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.

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The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

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I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

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We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

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Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.

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If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

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You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.

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I'm a flawed character... I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.

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So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

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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.

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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

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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.

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

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The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.

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My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

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For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

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I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.

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I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

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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.

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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.

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Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you're shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

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But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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