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
life thinking space
Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.
years seven said
I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.
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.
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.
ideas pressured
The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.
body hills up-and-down
I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.
people trying apologizing
I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people,
sorry believe miracle
I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles,
winning preparation process
There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.
cocktails speak confession
My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
trying culture doping
I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,
book men thinking
Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.
cancer teaching winning
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.
clever years trying
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.