Lance Armstrong Quotes - Page 4

Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

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

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

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

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.

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

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

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

I'm not a patient person.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

I tried to control the narrative.

If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.