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
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.
sports thinking levels
It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.
sports nice golf
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
sports cycling spectators
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
sports athlete caring
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.
funny sports farewell
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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.
sports world sophisticated
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
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.
motivational leadership sports
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
inspirational motivational sports
Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
sports figure-skating figures
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.