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
thinking people three
I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.
attitude winning arrogance
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
cancer thinking cycling
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.
people levels may
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.
jobs memories three
I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.
cancer diagnosis fighter
Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
mistake evil toxic
We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.
believe mind body
I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.
patient-person patient persons
I'm not a patient person.
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.
sorry trying not-sorry
I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.
mistake decision reason
That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.
people needs fields
I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.
school kids weather
I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.