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
cancer diagnosis fighter
Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
painful-moments wonder curious
In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.
athlete race childhood
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
mistake evil toxic
We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.
fighting opponents invisible
How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?
patient-person patient persons
I'm not a patient person.
christian book judging
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.
winning quality assuming
When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.
cancer thinking cycling
What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.
years careers records
My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
nice one-day three
There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.
wind tree challenges
You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.
names people long
I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.
moon rocks air
Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain.