Lance Armstrong Quotes

340 Lance Armstrong Quotes

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I told myself the climb was an opportunity, not an obstacle.
Lance Armstrong

It is a mistake to try to win too many stages of the tour, both tactically and politically. There is an unwritten code against individual greed in the Peloton and I respect it.
Lance Armstrong

The thing that makes winning so difficult, and I mean winning anything, even a five cent ring toss much less the tour, is that the mind and the body almost never work together cooperatively. Mostly we are at odds with ourselves…
Lance Armstrong

When your body gets tired it’s the job of your mind to override the impulse to stop.
Lance Armstrong

After cancer I needed a different emotional fuel too, something different than anger.
Lance Armstrong

I had broken my neck. After years of trying, I had finally done it.
Lance Armstrong

When you prepare for an event, and you do your best and go your hardest, and then you don’t get it, you just have to say, ‘I didn’t deserve to win.’ And I didn’t.
Lance Armstrong

It seems only right that a place called Dead Man’s Hole should belong to a guy who nearly died – and who, by the way, has no intention of just barely living.
Lance Armstrong

This is my neighbourhood, and nobody else is winning this race.
Lance Armstrong

It’s good for you if you can swim.
Lance Armstrong



I think the biggest thing cancer did was knock down a wall in me. Before cancer I defined myself purely in terms of ‘winner’ or ‘loser’, but I don’t have that kind of rigid vanity anymore.
Lance Armstrong

I know they’re out there, lying in their hospital beds, with those damn drip poles, watching the damn chemo slide into their veins, and thinking, ‘This guy had the same thing I do. If he can do it, I can, too.’ I think of them all the time.
Lance Armstrong

I almost died, and possibly even did die a little, but then I got pitched back into the world of the living.
Lance Armstrong

CANCER: Courage, Attitude, Never give up, Curability, Enlightenment and Remembrance of my fellow patients.
Lance Armstrong

I will always carry the lesson of cancer with me…
Lance Armstrong

A little fear is good for you.
Lance Armstrong

I’ll spend the rest of my life puzzling over my survival.
Lance Armstrong

I want to cross one last finish line as my stud 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.
Lance Armstrong

I’ve learnt that intense movement is a necessary thing in my life, something as fundamental and as simple as breathing. I don’t believe I could ride, or live, any differently.
Lance Armstrong

I keep riding, into the highest peering hills, up the pitch of a mountainside, where green leaves quiver in the cold sun.
Lance Armstrong



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