Lance Armstrong Quotes

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

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.

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.

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.

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.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

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.

I still don't get golf.

The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily.

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.

Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I'm here.

[A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

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.

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.

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

[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.