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
pain forever quitting
Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!
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.
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.
pain believe years
[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.
antidote
Hope that is the only antidote to fear.
teamwork regret dodgeball
I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
athlete race goal
I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals
feelings clubs up-to-you
It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
girlfriend
At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend
create good love sabotage scares system witch year
What scares me is (the re-testing procedure) would create a full-blown witch hunt. This would give them another year to sabotage the system again, and that's not a good thought. I love my sport. I love racing. I feel I have accomplished enough.
call chicago competing conflict fill fit life looking quit schedule seems training void york
We were looking at the Chicago Marathon, but a conflict arose with the date, and New York seems to fit our schedule better. I've been training some, but I wouldn't call it serious. It's just something to fill a void in my life after I quit competing as a professional cyclist.
yellow
We don't need the yellow jersey, ... We don't need to keep it in the Alps, we need to have it at the end.
children happy natural
Yeah. Sheryl and I are very happy. To me, when you have a relationship, you're happy and in love, children are a natural part of the equation,