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
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.
bullying thinking dishonesty
There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
perspective choices live-your-life
The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
winning care loser
The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
pain forever quitting
Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!
sorry believe miracle
I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles,
ironic want used
It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.
pain cancer loss
Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.
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.
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.
cancer survival firsts
The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?
cancer careers giving
It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus.
cancer thinking suffering
So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.
race sick dying
When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.