Lance Armstrong Quotes - Page 5

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.

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.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

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. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

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

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

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.