Lance Armstrong
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.Collection: Fitness
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.Collection: Fitness
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.Collection: Hope
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.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.
My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.
There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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.
Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.
I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
I still don't get golf.
I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.Collection: Inspirational
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.Collection: Simple
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.Collection: Running
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.Collection: Motivational
Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it’s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. ‘PLEASURE???? I said.’ ‘I don’t understand the question.’ I didn’t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.Collection: Sports
If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.Collection: Order
I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.Collection: Drug
Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.Collection: Opportunity
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.Collection: Mother
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.Collection: Dream
I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.Collection: Inspirational
If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.Collection: Clever
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.Collection: Sports
Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.Collection: Motivation
Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everythingCollection: Attitude
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.Collection: Stars