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
chance percentages willing
I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
believe advice never-stop-believing
My advice to you is never stop believing.
winning care loser
The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
years abdominals best-year
I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.
allegations evidence extraordinary
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
sports cycling spectators
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
christian book judging
At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.
mean heart long
A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.
inspirational struggle flew-up
I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.
character heart winning
There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart.
drug tests performances
I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.
painful-moments wonder curious
In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.
math race space
The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.
forever may
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.