Lance Armstrong quotes

Born
September 18, 1971, Plano, Texas, U.S.

Occupation
Professional road racing cyclist.

Lance Armstrong is a former American professional road racing cyclist.

Giving up was never an option.
– Lance Armstrong

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits.
– Lance Armstrong

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It’s got to be in the right place.
– Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
– Lance Armstrong

If I can’t face my accusers, that’s a joke. We did that in medieval times.
– Lance Armstrong

There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say: ‘Enough is enough.’
– Lance Armstrong

My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
– Lance Armstrong

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn’t been punched.
– Lance Armstrong

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I’ve said it for seven years.
– Lance Armstrong

It’s simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
– Lance Armstrong

There’s no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can’t come back. So I have every right to come back.
– Lance Armstrong

Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.
– Lance Armstrong

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
– Lance Armstrong

I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.
– Lance Armstrong

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.
– Lance Armstrong

Portland, Oregon won’t build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
– Lance Armstrong

If we don’t somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we’re going to have a huge problem.
– Lance Armstrong

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
– Lance Armstrong

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.
– Lance Armstrong

I’ve given gifts in the Tour de France and it’s come back to bit me. So no gifts.
– Lance Armstrong

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.
– Lance Armstrong

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
– Lance Armstrong

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

It’s funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don’t tweet, I don’t talk, I don’t interview, and then I have times where I do.
– Lance Armstrong

For whatever reason, maybe it’s because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
– Lance Armstrong

I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.
– Lance Armstrong

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
– Lance Armstrong

Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?
– Lance Armstrong

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
– Lance Armstrong

I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.
– Lance Armstrong

Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I’m here.
– Lance Armstrong

What is stronger, fear or hope?
– Lance Armstrong

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.
– Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
– Lance Armstrong

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.
– Lance Armstrong

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

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
– Lance Armstrong

Chasing records doesn’t keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
– Lance Armstrong

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?
– Lance Armstrong

It’s nice to win. I’ll never win again. I may have to take up golf – take on Tiger.
– Lance Armstrong

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
– Lance Armstrong

The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It’s yours to decide.
– Lance Armstrong

Losing and dying: it’s the same thing.
– Lance Armstrong