Lance Armstrong Quotes About Losing

Quotes about: Losing

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Hurt, Two, Scary

  Interview with Kevin Cook, www.playboy.com. June 2005.

• 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.

• Losing and dying: it's the same thing.

  Lance Armstrong

  Dying, Losing, Driving

• 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

• 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.

  Lance Armstrong

  Race, Sick, Dying

• Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.

  Lance Armstrong

  Loss, Winning, Self

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