Lance Armstrong Quotes

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.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

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

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

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.

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

Giving up was never an option

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

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.

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.