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
sorry believe miracle
I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles,
winning preparation process
There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.
cocktails speak confession
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
trying culture doping
I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,
book men thinking
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 covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.
cancer teaching winning
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
clever years trying
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.
family morning mirrors
I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
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.
athlete average long
What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.
fighting opponents invisible
How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?
thinking people trying
We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.
president former agree
On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
sorry mistake way
Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.