Lance Armstrong

“There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.”

— Lance Armstrong

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…

— Lance Armstrong

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve…

— Lance Armstrong

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

— Lance Armstrong

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in…

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you.…

— Lance Armstrong

“She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a…

— Lance Armstrong

Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or…

— Lance Armstrong

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again,…

— Lance Armstrong

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think…

— Lance Armstrong

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with…

— Lance Armstrong

I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition…

— Lance Armstrong

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the…

— Lance Armstrong

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more…

— Lance Armstrong

I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every…

— Lance Armstrong

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put…

— Lance Armstrong

We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never…

— Lance Armstrong

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad…

— Lance Armstrong

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

— Lance Armstrong

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press…

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying:…

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview,…

— Lance Armstrong

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

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

— Lance Armstrong

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…

— Lance Armstrong

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

I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of…

— Lance Armstrong

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.

— Lance Armstrong

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a…

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what…

— Lance Armstrong

The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you…

— Lance Armstrong

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

— Lance Armstrong