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
family morning mirrors
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.
couple thinking hands
The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.
athlete average long
What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.
fighting opponents invisible
How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?
thinking people trying
We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.
sorry mistake way
Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.
fighting persistence balls
My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
childhood tides problem
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
mind body shut-up
The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.
taken rights drug
[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.
needs cry
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
golf stills
I still don't get golf.
sky house burned
My house is burned, but I can see the sky.
athlete race childhood
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.