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
best exercising thinking
I'm thinking it's the best way, ... I'm exercising every day.
career happy
I'm happy with the way my career ended. I'm not going back,
american-athlete front happy
not happy because Lance did them in front of their own birds.
great overall sun
It was a great day, especially with the weather. First the heat, then the thunder, then the sun again. For the overall standings it is great.
bit climb days difficult hard heavy maybe month
It was a hard climb. Maybe I was still a little bit heavy for a climb like that. The difficult days are a month away and we're still on schedule. There's no stress.
beat goals great main outside passions sports
It's great to beat your goals -- and it's not that sports goals are bad, but this one was much better, ... This combines my two main passions in life, outside of my children.
card credit reminds
That's a new shirt, ... He put that on my credit card. That reminds me, I've got to get my card back.
contract pay question texas
That's a question of Texas contract law, ... What's the deal? Pay the money.
call chicago competing conflict fill fit life looking quit schedule seems training void york
We were looking at the Chicago Marathon, but a conflict arose with the date, and New York seems to fit our schedule better. I've been training some, but I wouldn't call it serious. It's just something to fill a void in my life after I quit competing as a professional cyclist.
campaign france recent smear
The recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side.
create good love sabotage scares system witch year
What scares me is (the re-testing procedure) would create a full-blown witch hunt. This would give them another year to sabotage the system again, and that's not a good thought. I love my sport. I love racing. I feel I have accomplished enough.
dropped percent performance powerful saying took
EPO is a powerful drug, ... Some say it makes you 10 percent faster. Let's say I took EPO in 1999 and didn't take it from 2000 to 2005. My performance never dropped off. Obviously, I'm not saying I did. But I only got faster.
anymore birthday birthdays five mark matter milestones october sort
Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.
hope
You have to live with the crashes, and hope you don't get into one,