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
country athlete years
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
sports athlete caring
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.
athlete winning lows
I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
morning sacrifice yellow
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.
giving-up nervous hungry
It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
perspective choices live-your-life
The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
sorry mistake trying
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.
men boys defining
If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.
law regulation quitting
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
pain joints marathon
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
years people design
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
wind tree challenges
You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.
god nuts atheism
If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.
average enemy my-favorite
Average is Your Enemy.