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.
Lance Armstrong

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
Lance Armstrong

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


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

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