My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. Lance Armstrong More Quotes by Lance Armstrong More Quotes From Lance Armstrong It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger. Lance Armstrong nicegolfsports Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for. Lance Armstrong cancervictorytwo When I was sick, I didn't want to die. Lance Armstrong sickdyingrace At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend Lance Armstrong girlfriend In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond. Lance Armstrong painful-momentscuriouswonder The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me. Lance Armstrong cyclingcouplethinking There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart. Lance Armstrong winningheartcharacter I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. Lance Armstrong flew-upstruggleinspirational At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine. Lance Armstrong judgingchristianbook Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. Lance Armstrong spectatorscyclingsports No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it Lance Armstrong showsgiving Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit. Lance Armstrong painforeverlong We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp. Lance Armstrong wantmightpeople If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war. Lance Armstrong blockwartwo I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty. Lance Armstrong stupidnamesthinking The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on. Lance Armstrong handspeoplethinking We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil. Lance Armstrong toxicevilmistake Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter. Lance Armstrong diagnosisfightercancer It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction. Lance Armstrong trainingfightingrace I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes. Lance Armstrong threepeoplethinking
