It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people. Lance Armstrong More Quotes by Lance Armstrong More Quotes From Lance Armstrong But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. Lance Armstrong champion pain forever Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does. Lance Armstrong cycling records doe Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me. Lance Armstrong surrender quitting pain 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. Lance Armstrong rejection games sports Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case. Lance Armstrong careers sports years 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. Lance Armstrong do-it-yourself ifs mother There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.' Lance Armstrong enough-is-enough enough men What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. Lance Armstrong athlete suffering running Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat. Lance Armstrong cancer republican care I tried to control the narrative. Lance Armstrong narrative The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. Lance Armstrong greedy can-do sports I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for. Lance Armstrong sorry mistake trying Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs. Lance Armstrong legs motivation ifs I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one. Lance Armstrong drug athlete years Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times. Lance Armstrong seven truth-is france The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father. Lance Armstrong cancer husband father What is stronger, fear or hope? Lance Armstrong stronger The biggest losers are those who care only about winning. Lance Armstrong who-cares loser winning Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme. Lance Armstrong sophisticated sports world If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts. Lance Armstrong atheism god nuts