Quotes by Lance Armstrong

About Lance Armstrong:

Lance Edward Armstrong is an American former professional road racing cyclist. He previously won the Tour de France seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, but was stripped of those victories in 2012 after a protracted doping scandal.
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

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 y...

Lance Armstrong

I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some ferv...

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

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. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. ...

Lance Armstrong

She transcends her sport, which is what any sport needs...And she does it while smiling the whole time. It's kind of a joke, but then again it's not, especially if you're a male pro trailing in her wake. To have this woman in the middle of such a suf...

Lance Armstrong

Some sessions are stars and some sessions are stones, but in the end they are all rocks and we build upon them.

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 you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Lance Armstrong

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Lance Armstrong

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

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Lance Armstrong

It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

Lance Armstrong

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

Lance Armstrong

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

Lance Armstrong

It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

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

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

Lance Armstrong

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

Lance Armstrong

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

Lance Armstrong

Author Bio

  • NameLance Armstrong
  • Descriptionprofessional cyclist from the USA
  • AliasesLance Edward Armstrong; Lance Edward Gunderson
  • BornSeptember 18, 1971
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionBicycle Racer; Autobiographer
  • AwardsPrincess Of Asturias Award For Sports