Quotes from 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.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

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

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

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.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

Giving up was never an option

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

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

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

Son,you never quit

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.

Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that it's absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain….Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. 'PLEASURE???? I said.' 'I don't understand the question.' I didn't do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain.

I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99

Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

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.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

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

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.