Lance Armstrong Quotes
340 Lance Armstrong Quotes
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Cancer would change everything for me, I realised; it wouldn’t just derail my career, it would deprive me of my entire definition of who I was. I had started with nothing.
Lance Armstrong
There were gallons of sweat over every trophy and dollar I had ever earned, and now what would I do? Who would I be if I wasn’t Lance Armstrong, world class cyclist?
Lance Armstrong
In that moment, it occurred to me: I might lose my life, too. Not just my sport. I could lose my life.
Lance Armstrong
Your past forms you, whether you like it or not.
Lance Armstrong
Each encounter and experience [you have] has its own effect, and you’re shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.
Lance Armstrong
Make every obstacle an opportunity.
Lance Armstrong
On the day I was born my grandfather quit drinking, and he’s been sober ever since, for 28 years, exactly as long as I’ve been alive.
Lance Armstrong
I did everything fast. I walked at nine months.
Lance Armstrong
It’s liberation and independence, your first set of wheels. A bike is freedom to roam, without rules and without adults.
Lance Armstrong
Athletes don’t have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because introspection doesn’t get you anywhere in a race.
Lance Armstrong
You need dumb focus.
Lance Armstrong
Make every negative into a positive.
Lance Armstrong
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
Lance Armstrong
Maybe if I ride my bike on this road long enough it will take me out of here.
Lance Armstrong
[In fifth grade] I’m going to be a champ.
Lance Armstrong
[When around 10 years old.] I was so inept that I was put with the seven year olds. It was embarrassing.
Lance Armstrong
I leaped headfirst into the water and flailed up and down the length of the pool, as if I was trying to splash all the water out of it.
Lance Armstrong
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
Lance Armstrong
I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn’t seem to matter what the sport was – in a straight ahead, long distance race, I could beat anybody.
Lance Armstrong
I’d play Kenny G for her – which believe me was a sacrifice.
Lance Armstrong
[When 15 years old] I think in a few years I’ll be right near the top, and within ten years I’ll be the best.
Lance Armstrong
If it sounds like it came easy, it didn’t.
Lance Armstrong
In one of the first pro triathlons I entered, I made the mistake of eating badly beforehand – and I downed a couple of cinnamon rolls and two Cokes – and I paid for it by bonking, meaning I ran completely out of energy. I had an empty tank.
Lance Armstrong
I walked to the finish line.
Lance Armstrong
I didn’t care if it was just a $100 cash prize, I would tear the legs off the other riders to get at it.
Lance Armstrong
I began training with them, a 16 year old riding with guys in their late 20s.
Lance Armstrong
Dallas is the third windiest city in the country. But it was good for me. Resistance.
Lance Armstrong
I used to like to ride in traffic, for the challenge.
Lance Armstrong
Nothing seemed to slow me down.
Lance Armstrong
I have a love of acceleration in any form.
Lance Armstrong
My mother and I couldn’t begin to keep up with the Joneses, so we didn’t even try.
Lance Armstrong
While other kids drove hot cars that their parents had given them, I drove the one I had bought with my own money.
Lance Armstrong
I was the guy who did weird sports and who didn’t wear the right labels.
Lance Armstrong
Same pants, same boots, same belts, same wallets, same caps. It was total conformity, and everything I was against.
Lance Armstrong
My life’s ambition wasn’t to own a tract home near a strip mall.
Lance Armstrong
How do you articulate all that you feel for and owe to a parent?
Lance Armstrong
Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
Lance Armstrong
My mother gave me everything.
Lance Armstrong
If you judge everybody by money, you got a lot to learn as you move through this life.
Lance Armstrong
I wasn’t thinking clearly, I was too mad.
Lance Armstrong
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