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
middle setup stuck
There's a setup here and I'm stuck in the middle of it,
fairly realize
It was fairly serious, but I didn't realize how much play it would get. My fault. In hindsight, I shouldn't have done it.
almost heard neat since year
You try to take all of that in. It will have been almost a year since I have heard that as a sportsman. It will be neat to get a little of that back.
bike bloody came clothes coolest hour later luke quit
Then the first day I put the bike clothes back on, Luke was like, 'What are you doing? I thought you quit your job.' Then I came back an hour later all bloody and he thought that was the coolest thing.
age college ride setting
We started out at a very young age setting goals, ... Lance wasn't a follower, he was a leader. All his friends went off to college and Lance said all he wanted to do was ride his bike.
relationship
Where to start? ... This has been a long, love-hate relationship between myself and the French.
good ready regroup rest
We were better, ... That's good going into the rest day: regroup and get ready for the big climbs.
basically city parties saying thank
We've always had parties or celebrations on that day. It was just a way to do something for a city that has done a lot of things for me. We're basically saying thank you for all the support.
absolutely gave great impressed kid lift team word
What's so great about the kid is that he absolutely doesn't know the word quit. He gave us a real lift today, and you had to be impressed with how our team set him up at the end.
saw surprised
I have to say I was surprised when I saw that announcement.
happens plays press stuff time watch
I just have to watch what happens in the press and see how it plays out. You know, it's always interesting reading; you just watch that stuff and never know how it's going to play out. It's not the first time it's happened.
dig dog race realized suffering tour wakes
I realized that the Tour is the one race that makes me tick, ... It's the one that wakes me up early. And it's the one, when I'm suffering like a dog in training, that makes me dig that much deeper. Nothing compares.
life million pursuing spend
but I don't know if I want to spend $1.5 million and two years of my life pursuing this. I have better things to do.
car driven paris row seven
But I know Johan. Seven years in a row he's driven into Paris in car No. 1, and he doesn't want to drive in car No. 3 or 5 or 10.