A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. Lance Armstrong More Quotes by Lance Armstrong More Quotes From Lance Armstrong My house is burned, but I can see the sky. Lance Armstrong burned house sky Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race. Lance Armstrong childhood race athlete I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out. Lance Armstrong percentages willing chance The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up. Lance Armstrong shut-up body mind My advice to you is never stop believing. Lance Armstrong never-stop-believing advice believe 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. Lance Armstrong gratitude cheer people Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need. Lance Armstrong men book thinking For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities. Lance Armstrong cancer teaching winning I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We do it every day, I realized. We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself, believing in the doctors, believing in thetreatent, believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing. Lance Armstrong shining long believe What ever your 100% looks like, give it. Lance Armstrong giving looks During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope. Lance Armstrong fighting rain hands Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain. Lance Armstrong rocks moon air The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing. Lance Armstrong block success motivational How many times do I have to say it? … Well, it can't be any clearer than 'I've never taken drugs.' Lance Armstrong wells drug taken I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years. Lance Armstrong seven said years I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture. Lance Armstrong doping trying culture I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people. Lance Armstrong apologizing trying people So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us. Lance Armstrong cancer suffering thinking 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. Lance Armstrong design people years Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons. Lance Armstrong joints marathon pain
