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
hilarious cheer acceptance
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
stronger
What is stronger, fear or hope?
attitude knowledge-and-power community
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
athlete want six
Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
giving-up giving
Giving up was never an option
positive athlete redefining
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
pain quitting surrender
Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
running cancer thinking
You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.
running exercise swim
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
giving-up cancer fighting
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
winning france environment
I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.
husband cancer father
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
dream mean winning
I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.
narrative
I tried to control the narrative.