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
giving shows
No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it
cancer careers giving
It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus.
giving looks
What ever your 100% looks like, give it.
order giving drug
If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.
giving-up nervous hungry
It works better for me to be nervous and hungry.
giving-up giving
Giving up was never an option
giving-up cancer fighting
We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
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.
light limits weight
Too light is when it is out of the rules. There are weight limits in place.
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.
climb difficult downhill effort fast hard percent
I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was a 100 percent effort all the way but that's OK,
nights sit wonder
I sit around some nights and I wonder what it would be like to be retired,
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.
Right now, ... we're considering all our options.