Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Lance Armstrong

If we don't somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we're going to have a huge problem.

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

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.

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

I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

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.

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

I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.

I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.

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.

For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

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.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

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

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

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.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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

It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.

Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.

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

I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

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.

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

I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

I still don't get golf.

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

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

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.

Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything

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.

Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.

Giving up was never an option

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.

I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.

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

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

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

My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.

It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.

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

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

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.

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.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

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

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.

If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.

I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.

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.

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

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.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.