Quotes from Lance Armstrong

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

I had a decision to make. To me, it wasn't a hard one: if I could ride, I was going. Crashes were unavoidable in cycling, and so was bad luck, and if you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

What will you do with your wild & precious self?

In a pack sprint to the finish line, a solo rider without allies or associates is a tired & losing one.

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

Make every negative into a positive," as my mother says. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

THERE ARE ANGELS on this earth and they come in subtle forms

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 suffer fest out there crushing people and smiling all the way...

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

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

Gibney, we gotta win this fucking Tour de France.

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

I wrote an entire book about death, called 'It's not About the Bike', about confronting the possibility of it, and narrowly escaping it. (...) What I didn't and couldn't address at the time was the prospect of life. Once you figure out you're going to live, you have to decide how to, and that's not an uncomplicated matter.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

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

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

Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

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

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

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