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
thinking hands people
The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.
stronger
What is stronger, fear or hope?
pain quitting surrender
Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.
running cancer thinking
You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.
running exercise swim
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
change hard-work sacrifice
Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
athlete want six
Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
giving-up giving
Giving up was never an option
hurt two scary
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
people want might
We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.
sports greedy can-do
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
sports games rejection
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
doe records chasing
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
war block two
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.