Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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

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

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

Evan Handler is a man who's looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It's Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It's an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

We each cope differently with the specter of our deaths. Some people deny it. Some pray. Some numb themselves with tequila. I was tempted to do a little of each of those things. But I think we are supposed to try to face it straightforwardly, armed with nothing but courage.

What losing does is, it restores the perspective.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way - all of which I am truly sorry.

Some things you can't win, though I don't like to admit it. I'm not used to losing much of anything, whether its a race or a debate, but among the things that I nearly lost are my life, my neck, and my good name, and I've gained a realization: a life of unbroken success is not only impossible, it's probably not even good for you...

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

I challenged that assumption by returning to a full, productive life. I had behaved, Nichols said, as if death was an option.