I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. Lance Armstrong More Quotes by Lance Armstrong More Quotes From Lance Armstrong 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 family mirrors morning 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 Lance Armstrong race athlete goal 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 hard-work sorry believe 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. Lance Armstrong records careers years Hope that is the only antidote to fear. Lance Armstrong antidote 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. Lance Armstrong strong race would-be My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone. Lance Armstrong cocktails confession speak You know what they say, the high trees get the wind. Lance Armstrong challenges tree wind 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 one-day nice different Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever! Lance Armstrong quitting pain forever 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 clubs up-to-you feelings 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 space race math 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 stars lying children 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 cancer helping-others opportunity 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 assuming quality winning 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 cancer talking men 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 self winning loss 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 scripts hollywood stories I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be. Lance Armstrong forever may Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance. Lance Armstrong like-you causes winning
