Lance Armstrong Quotes - Page 3

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.

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

I still don't get golf.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

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

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.