Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrongis an American former professional road racing cyclist. He is the 1993 Elite Men's Road Race World Champion, and he had won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of his Tour de France victories in 2012 after a protracted doping scandal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCyclist
Date of Birth18 September 1971
CityPlano, TX
CountryUnited States of America
believe mind body
I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.
patient-person patient persons
I'm not a patient person.
winning france environment
I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
sorry trying not-sorry
I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.
mistake decision reason
That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.
people needs fields
I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.
school kids weather
I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.
cancer bad-day years
Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.
sports thinking levels
It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
fighting race training
It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.
girlfriend
At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
feelings clubs up-to-you
It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
teamwork regret dodgeball
I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
children cancer cynical
It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.