Quotes from Lance Armstrong

You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

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.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

It's ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

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

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.

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

When I was sick, I didn't want to die. When I race, I don't want to lose. Dying and losing, it's the same thing.

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.

You don't have to have been near death to know . . . what living is all about–but maybe it helps.

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.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

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.

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. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.