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
cancer care republican
Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.
running athlete suffering
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
narrative
I tried to control the narrative.
france truth-is seven
Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.
motivation legs ifs
Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.
children giving-up cancer
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.
names people lasts
At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.
stars texas years
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.
husband cancer father
The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.
dream sorry believe
The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles...
thinking gun doors
I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.
running believe fighting
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
inspirational sports athlete
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
sports football fall
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.