Lance Armstrong Quotes

1. Determination: 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. Belief: 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. Hope: 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.

4. Critics: To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.

5. Birthdays: Birthdays don't really matter much anymore ... for me, I sort of have a new birthday and that's October 2nd, the day I was diagnosed, ... the day we all sort of look to and mark these milestones by one year, two year, five year, 10 year. Hopefully, I have a 50 year.

6. Attitude: I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

7. Family: 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.

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

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

10. Risk: The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

11. Fans: A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

12. Support: Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone

13. Effort: What ever your 100% looks like, give it."

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

15. Choice: What is stronger, fear or hope?"

16. Experience: 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.

17. Tolerance: 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.

18. Wisdom: Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

19. Truth: 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.

20. Politics: The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor—the governor's race here in Austin or in Texas—is that it would mimic exactly what I've done: a ton of stress and a ton of time away from my kids. Why would I want to go from pro cycling, which is stressful and a lot of time away, straight into politics?