Lance Armstrong Quotes

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.

Giving up was never an option.

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

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

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

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.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

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.

But you can’t quit, either. Even if you have to walk to the finish line… ~ Linda Armstrong.

Athletes don’t have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn’t get you anywhere in a race.

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

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.

I’ve learned how to take out my own stitches: all you need is a pair of fingernail clippers & a strong stomach.

What ever your 100% looks like, give it.

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.