Lance Armstrong Quotes About Cancer

Quotes about: Cancer

• Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Care, Republican

  "Cancer: Lance Armstrong promotes $1 cigarette tax" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. February 28, 2011.

• 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

  Inspirational, Sports, Children

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.4, Random House

• 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

  Husband, Cancer, Father

• 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

  Cancer, Granted, Changed

• 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

  Running, Cancer, Thinking

  "Go ahead, hit me". Interview with Peter La Fleur, poststar.com. December 29, 2005.

• Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Two, Victory

  "Armstrong shows them who's boss" by Keith B. Richburg, www.sfgate.com. July 29, 2002.

• The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Survival, Firsts

• 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-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Cancer, Loss

  Interview with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. August 26, 2007.

• So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Thinking, Suffering

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.184, Random House

• 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

  Cancer, Careers, Giving

• 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

  Encouraging, Girl, Strong

• 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

  Children, Cancer, Bravery

• 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

  Cancer, Teaching, Winning

• 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

  Cancer, Diagnosis, Fighter

  "Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey: the transcript". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 18, 2013.

• People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Men, Talking

  "The Wired Diares 2000". www.wired.com. January 1, 2000.

• What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street - whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community - it matters what they think.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Thinking, What Matters

  "Lance Armstrong says turn back time and he would 'probably' dope again". Interview with Brendan Trembath, www.abc.net.au. January 27, 2015.

• 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

  Motivational, Success, Block

• 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

  Cancer, Athlete, People

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Cancer, Bad Day, Years

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Cycling, Messages

  Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

• I thought I knew what fear was, until I heard the words 'You have cancer'.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Heard

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.51, Random House

• 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

  Cancer, Helping Others, Opportunity

  Press Conference, October 08, 1996.

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