Quotes from Lance Armstrong

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

I still don't get golf.

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.

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.

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

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

I become a happier man each time I suffer

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.

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

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.

I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession] to help a lot of people.

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

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

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

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.