110+ Lance Armstrong Quotes On Doping, Dedicated And Courageous

Lance Armstrong was an American professional road racing cyclist. He was considered one of the greatest cyclists of all time and won a record seven consecutive Tour de France titles between 1999 and 2005. Armstrong was later stripped of all his titles due to doping allegations. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Lance Armstrong on doping, life, dedicated.

Top 10 Lance Armstrong Quotes

1. 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.
2. Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
3. I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.
4. My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.
5. One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
6. If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
7. Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
8. If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
9. 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.
10. Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

Lance Armstrong Short Quotes

• Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.
• A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.
• Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything
• The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.
• I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.
• My greatest point is my persistence... However down I am, I fight until the last ball.
• Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.
• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.
• It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
• I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

Lance Armstrong Quotes About Doping

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

If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme. — Lance Armstrong

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

I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one. — Lance Armstrong

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years. — Lance Armstrong

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture. — Lance Armstrong

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Quotes About Life

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus. — Lance Armstrong

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

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Quotes About Inspiring

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

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters. — Lance Armstrong

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on? — 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. — Lance Armstrong

I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else. — 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. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Quotes About Pain

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow. — Lance Armstrong

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — Lance Armstrong

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever! — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Quotes About France

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father. — Lance Armstrong

You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit. — Lance Armstrong

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts. — Lance Armstrong

There were no shortcuts, I realized. It took years of racing to build up the mind and body and character until a rider had logged hundreds of races and thousands of miles of road. I wouldn't be able to win a Tour de France until I had enough iron in my legs, and lungs, and brain and Heart. — Lance Armstrong

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

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts. — Lance Armstrong

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment. — Lance Armstrong

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Quotes About Running

I think I bit off more than I could chew. I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now... that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done. — Lance Armstrong

Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you. — Lance Armstrong

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor — Lance Armstrong

For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done. I never felt a point where I hit the wall. It was really a gradual progression of fatigue and soreness. — Lance Armstrong

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. — Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Lance Armstrong

The last thing I'll say for the people that don't believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't dream big and I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories. — Lance Armstrong

The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike? — Lance Armstrong

Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy. — Lance Armstrong

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike. — Lance Armstrong

The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me. — Lance Armstrong

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment. — Lance Armstrong

I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease. I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today. — Lance Armstrong

There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true. — Lance Armstrong

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance. — Lance Armstrong

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive. — Lance Armstrong

Nineteen hundred meters up there is completely different from1,900 any place else. There's no air, there's no oxygen. There's no vegetation, there's no life. There's no life. Rocks. Any other climb there's vegetation, grass and trees. Not there on the Ventoux. It's more like the moon than a mountain. — Lance Armstrong

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion? — Lance Armstrong

I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. — Lance Armstrong

Losing and dying: it's the same thing. — Lance Armstrong

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite. — Lance Armstrong

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one. — Lance Armstrong

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics. — Lance Armstrong

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'. — Lance Armstrong

It's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club — Lance Armstrong

Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true. — Lance Armstrong

Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day. — Lance Armstrong

Giving up was never an option — Lance Armstrong

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be. — Lance Armstrong

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine. — Lance Armstrong

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere. — Lance Armstrong

The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work. — Lance Armstrong

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help. — Lance Armstrong

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

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. — Lance Armstrong

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts. — Lance Armstrong

My advice to you is never stop believing. — Lance Armstrong

Average is Your Enemy. — Lance Armstrong

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 — Lance Armstrong

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race. — Lance Armstrong

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

I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals — Lance Armstrong

It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction. — Lance Armstrong

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do. — Lance Armstrong

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

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

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. — Lance Armstrong

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

Well, you better ride like you stole something 'cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance. — Lance Armstrong

My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will. — Lance Armstrong

What is stronger, fear or hope? — Lance Armstrong

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty. — Lance Armstrong

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

It's a fact that children with cancer have higher cure rates than adults with cancer, and I wonder if the reason is their natural, unthinking bravery... Adults know too much about failure; they're more cynical and resigned and fearful. — Lance Armstrong

At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend — Lance Armstrong

If you're trying to hide something, you wouldn't keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever. — Lance Armstrong

Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m. — Lance Armstrong

Life Lessons by Lance Armstrong

1. Lance Armstrong has taught us that perseverance and determination can help us overcome any obstacle. He demonstrated this in his battle against cancer and in his cycling career.
2. He also showed us that it is possible to achieve greatness even in the face of adversity. His success in cycling despite his cancer diagnosis is a testament to his strength of character.
3. Finally, Armstrong has shown us that it is possible to come back from a setback and still reach success. He was able to come back from his cancer diagnosis and still compete at the highest level of cycling.