Lance Armstrong famous quotes

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Believe #Fighting #Persistence

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

#Believe #Mind #I Believe

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sports #Figure Skating #Figures

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Dream #Mean #Winning

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

#Determination #Second Chance #Way

I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cancer

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

#Sports #Football #Fall

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

#Punishment #Lines #Way

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

#Inspirational #Sports #Heart

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sports #Thinking #Levels

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

#Attitude #Good Day #Great Day

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Bullying #Thinking #Dishonesty

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

#Running #Believe #Fighting

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Names #People #Lasts

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Stars #Texas #Years

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Gun #Thinking #Doors

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

#Cancer #Care #Republican

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cancer #Bad Day #Years

I tried to control the narrative.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Narrative

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Winning #France #Environment

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Inspirational #Motivational #Perseverance

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Jobs #Memories #Three

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Needs #Cry

I still don't get golf.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Golf #Stills

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Children #Giving Up #Cancer

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Thinking #Racing #Take Me Back

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Block #War #Two

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
-- Lance Armstrong

#France #Truth Is #Seven

I'm not a patient person.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Patient #Persons

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Mother #Do It Yourself

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cancer #Thinking #What Matters

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Husband #Father #Cancer

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Names #Long #People

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

#Men #Enough

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Forever #Bigs

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

#Giving Up #Cancer #Fighting

The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cancer #Athlete #People

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Change #Hard Work #Sacrifice

The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Thinking #Hands #People

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Strong #Pain #Cycling

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.
-- Lance Armstrong

#People #Want #Might

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Hilarious #Cheer #Acceptance

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Mistake #Decision #Reason

You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Running #Cancer #Thinking

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

#Sorry #Trying #Justify

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Inspirational #Teamwork #Wind

I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Jobs #Memories #Race

‎"Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Opportunity #Negative #Obstacles

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.
-- Lance Armstrong

#People #Needs #Fields

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Exercise #People #Choices

Giving up was never an option
-- Lance Armstrong

#Giving Up #Giving

I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily.
-- Lance Armstrong

#People #Levels #May

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Weather #Oregon #Portland

I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.
-- Lance Armstrong

#School #Kids #Weather

I become a happier man each time I suffer
-- Lance Armstrong

#Men #Suffering

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sorry #Dollars #Lost

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sports #Greedy

It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Thinking #People #Movement

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

#Years #Careers #Drug

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Thinking #Punishment #Care

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sports #Games #Rejection

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Years #People #Trying

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Running #Exercise #Swim

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Team #Decision #Imperfect

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Hurt #Two #Scary

I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cycling #Growth #Expansion

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

#Motivation #Legs

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Thinking #People #Foundation

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

#Positive #Athlete #Redefining

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Fighting #Race #Training

What is stronger, fear or hope?
-- Lance Armstrong

#Stronger

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sports #World #Sophisticated

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

#Pain #Quitting #Surrender

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

#Mistake #Evil #Toxic

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

#Athlete #Six #Want

The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Team #Men #Doctors

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cancer #Diagnosis #Fighter

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Running #Thinking #Doubt

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Attitude #Winning #Arrogance

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Athlete #Years #Drug

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
-- Lance Armstrong

#Attitude #Community #Knowledge Is Power

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Doe #Records #Chasing

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Children #Cancer #Cynical

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
-- Lance Armstrong

#Feelings #Clubs #Welcome

I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Teamwork #Regret #Tough

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Winning #Preparation #Process

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

#Cocktails #Speak #Testosterone

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,
-- Lance Armstrong

#Trying #Culture

People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man
-- Lance Armstrong

#Cancer #Men #Talking

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Mountain #Riding #Tandem

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

#Clever #Years #Trying

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Years #Seven #Said

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Winning #Who Cares #Loser

How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.'
-- Lance Armstrong

#Taken #Drug #Wells

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles,
-- Lance Armstrong

#Sorry #Believe #Miracle

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Years #Abdominals #Chiropractic

At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
-- Lance Armstrong

#Girlfriend

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

#Fighting #Persistence #Balls

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.
-- Lance Armstrong

#Race #Sick #Dying

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

#Ideas