Quotes By Lance Armstrong

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

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

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

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.

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

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

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

I still don't get golf.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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