Lance Armstrong Quotes
340 Lance Armstrong Quotes
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There is something about staring at your brain metastases that focuses a person.
Lance Armstrong
Why should you be the person who operates on my head? Shapiro answered ‘Because as good as you are at cycling, I’m a lot better at brain surgery.’
Lance Armstrong
I had to choose my doctors and my place of treatment, and it wasn’t like choosing a mutual fund, either. The rate of return in this instance was a matter of life and death.
Lance Armstrong
You can’t kill me. Hit me with everything you got, just dump it all on me. Whatever you give to other people, give me double. I want to make sure we get it all. Let’s kill this damn thing.
Lance Armstrong
We have a nutritionist who has recommended certain things,. If you can’t do it, fine. We’ll get our own food.
Lance Armstrong
There was no easy way to say it; it was where the surgeon would crack my head open.
Lance Armstrong
We watched the World Series and tried to act like we were interested in the outcome – as much as anybody really cares about baseball before brain surgery.
Lance Armstrong
It hit home that he would be operating in areas where the slightest errors could cost me my eyesight or my movement and motor skills.
Lance Armstrong
How do you confront your own death?
Lance Armstrong
I believed I had a responsibility to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honourable.
Lance Armstrong
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 realised.
Lance Armstrong
We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long lived human characteristics.
Lance Armstrong
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.
Lance Armstrong
To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in the treatment, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing, I decided. It had to be.
Lance Armstrong
Without belief, we would be left with nothing but an overwhelming doom, every single day. And it will beat you.
Lance Armstrong
Dispiritedness and disappointment, these were the real perils of life, not some sudden illness or cataclysmic millennium doomsday.
Lance Armstrong
I knew now why people fear cancer: because it is a slow and inevitable death, it is the very definition of cynicism and loss of spirit. So, I believed.
Lance Armstrong
When you can’t remember something, there’s a reason why. I’ve blocked out much of what I thought and felt the morning of my brain surgery…
Lance Armstrong
My doctors were my Gods.
Lance Armstrong
It’s just one more thing I’m going to overcome. This is the only way I want it.
Lance Armstrong
He [Larry Einhorn] like Dr. Nichols and Dr. Shapiro, was one of those physicians who make you understand the meaning of the world ‘healer’.
Lance Armstrong
They not only saw people live and die, they witnessed how we handled those two circumstances, unmasked, with all of our irrational optimism and fear and incredible strength, on a daily basis.
Lance Armstrong
I’m smiling because I’m still here.
Lance Armstrong
Remission: bald, scarred, and brooding.
Lance Armstrong
Nike didn’t desert me. As I got sicker, it meant everything.
Lance Armstrong
I’ll be an Oakley, Nike, and Giro athlete for as long as I live.
Lance Armstrong
Cancer was teaching me daily to examine my fellow human beings more deeply, to throw out my previous assumptions and oversimplifications.
Lance Armstrong
The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer, or me?
Lance Armstrong
Chemo was a burning in my veins, a matter of being slowly eaten from the inside out by a destroying river of pollutants until I didn’t have an eyelash left to bat.
Lance Armstrong
I imagined I was coughing out the burned-up tumours. I envisioned the chemo working on them, singeing them, and expelling them from my system.
Lance Armstrong
When I went to the bathroom I endured the acid sting in my groin by telling myself I was peeing out dead cancer cells.
Lance Armstrong
I was coughing up cancer, pissing it out, getting rid of it every way I knew how.
Lance Armstrong
By the fourth cycle – the highest number prescribed for cancer patients, and only in the most severe cases – I was in the foetal position, retching around the clock.
Lance Armstrong
Those liquids were so destructive they could literally evaporate all of the blood in my body. I felt like my veins were being scoured out.
Lance Armstrong
Chemo doesn’t just kill cancer – it kills healthy cells, too.
Lance Armstrong
Chemo felt like a kind of living death.
Lance Armstrong
I was not a compliant cancer patient. I was salty, aggressive, and pestering. I personalised the disease.
Lance Armstrong
‘The Bastard’ I called it. I made it my enemy, my challenge.
Lance Armstrong
I had a more immediate problem to concentrate on – not puking.
Lance Armstrong
I got the message Cofidis was sending: I was a dead man.
Lance Armstrong
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