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
dying driving losing
Losing and dying: it's the same thing.
sorry mistake trying
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
team decision imperfect
When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.
want ifs
Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.
couple thinking hands
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
attitude winning arrogance
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
cancer men talking
People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man
years abdominals best-year
I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.
winning causes like-you
Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.
math race space
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.
forever may
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
cancer helping-others opportunity
I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.
sorry mistake way
Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
mind body shut-up
The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.