I am deeply sorry for many things I have done. However, it is my hope that revealing the truth will lead to a bright, dope-free future for the sport I love, in the rush to vilify Lance, many of the other equally culpable participants have been allowed to escape scrutiny, much less sanction, and many of the anti-doping 'enforcers' have chosen to grandstand at Lance's expense rather than truly search for the truth.

Lance Armstrong

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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

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I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

Lance Armstrong
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I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals

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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

Lance Armstrong
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My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.

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Hope that is the only antidote to fear. by Lance Armstrong

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

Lance Armstrong
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We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.

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My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusio... by Lance Armstrong

My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

Lance Armstrong
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You know what they say, the high trees get the wind. by Lance Armstrong

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

Lance Armstrong
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There were something like 50 good, arduous climbs around Nice, solid inclines of ten miles or more. The trick was not to climb every once in awhile, but to climb repeatedly. I would do three different climbs in one day, over the course of a six- or seven-hour ride. A 12 mile climb took about an hour, so that tells you what my days were like.

Lance Armstrong
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Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever! by Lance Armstrong

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

Lance Armstrong
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It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club

Lance Armstrong
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The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Lance Armstrong
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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. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

Lance Armstrong
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I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

Lance Armstrong
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When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

Lance Armstrong
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People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.

Lance Armstrong
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Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.

Lance Armstrong
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If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.

Lance Armstrong
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be. by Lance Armstrong

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

Lance Armstrong
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