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
surfing surf committed
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
france given bits
I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.
mom strong character
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
team kids years
I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
dying driving losing
Losing and dying: it's the same thing.
six ifs
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
lying bigs
I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
winning unfair-advantage seven
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
pain forever champion
But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
use action knows
When you know your not going to die, you have to ask yourself... What's the highest and best use for myself.
heart facts priceless
I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99
believe long shining
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself...believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.
education priceless
Fear is priceless education.
giving looks
What ever your 100% looks like, give it.