Lance Armstrong Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Figure Skating, Figures

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Football, Fall

  Lance Armstrong (2010). “Every Second Counts”, p.66, Random House

• 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.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life". Book by Lance Armstrong and Sally Jenkins, May 22, 2000.

• Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Sports, Heart

  "LIVESTRONG America" by Jon Kraushar, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2009.

• 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

  Sports, Strong, Pain

• 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

• Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

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

• The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Greedy, Can Do

  "LIVESTRONG America" by Jon Kraushar, www.foxnews.com. July 16, 2009.

• 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

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

  "The Observer Effect". www.sbs.com.au. September 22, 2013.

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Years, Careers

  FaceBook post by Lance Armstrong from May 19, 2011

• Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Games, Rejection

  "How Rejection Catalyzed Zuckerberg, Michael Jordan And Other Winners" by Jason Comely, www.businessinsider.com. November 5, 2010.

• 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

  Inspirational, Sports, Athlete

• What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Athlete, Caring

• It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.

  Lance Armstrong

  Funny, Sports, Farewell

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Nice, Golf

• Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Cycling, Spectators

  "Big interview: Donald McRae meets Lance Armstrong". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2008.

• It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Care

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

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, World, Sophisticated

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

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