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title: "6 Temporary Quotes By Lance Armstrong"
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> [Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/evan-handler-is-a-man-who-s-looked-into-the-abyss-and-laughed-his/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/931/lance-armstrong-1639_abyss_evan-handler-is-a-man-who-s-looked-into_87032.jpg)

> [Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/pain-is-temporary-eventually-it-will-subside-if-i-quit-however-the/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/742/lance-armstrong-1639_i-quit_pain-is-temporary-eventually-it-will-sub_526109.jpg)

> [But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/but-the-fact-is-that-i-wouldn-t-have-won-even-a-single-tour-de-france/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8c/lance-armstrong-1639_champion_but-the-fact-is-that-i-wouldn-t-have-won_1227130.jpg)

> [ \[The\] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/the-pain-is-temporary-it-may-last-a-minute-an-hour-a-day-or-a-year/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45b/lance-armstrong-1639_believe_the-pain-is-temporary-it-may-last-a-minu_1381989.jpg)

> [Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/pain-is-temporary-it-may-last-a-minute-or-an-hour-or-a-day-or-a-year-2/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/34d/lance-armstrong-1639_pain_pain-is-temporary-it-may-last-a-minute-o_1990090.jpg)

> [Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/pain-is-only-temporary-quitting-is-forever/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

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## Other authors on Temporary

## More by Lance Armstrong

> [I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/i-raced-because-i-was-paid-to-do-a-job-and-i-felt-like-i-had-to-do/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/regardless-of-one-victory-two-victories-four-victories-there-s-never/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [Average is Your Enemy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/average-is-your-enemy/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/hard-work-sacrifice-and-focus-will-never-show-up-in-tests/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [Hope that is the only antidote to fear.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/hope-that-is-the-only-antidote-to-fear/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/evan-handler-is-a-man-who-s-looked-into-the-abyss-and-laughed-his/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/my-cocktail-so-to-speak-was-only-epo-but-not-a-lot-transfusions-and/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/i-love-this-race-from-the-very-depths-of-my-heart-it-gives-me/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/nothing-goes-to-waste-you-put-it-all-to-use-the-old-wounds-and-long/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [ I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation \[the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession\]… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/i-spent-a-long-time-trying-to-build-up-an-organisation-the-lance/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/a-bicycle-is-the-long-sought-means-of-transportation-for-all-of-us/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/you-know-what-they-say-the-high-trees-get-the-wind/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/live-strong-is-exactly-i-guess-what-it-says-it-s-one-thing-to-live/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/i-ve-committed-to-surfing-the-rest-of-my-life/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lance-armstrong/i-would-love-to-be-in-a-place-and-i-may-never-get-there-where-i-can/)

[Lance Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lance-armstrong/)

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