Lance Armstrong Quotes

"It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus."

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

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

"a little slice of heaven."

"I have no magic potion, although there are some who think I do."

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

"I don't have trust in that system,"

"What else can it be? ... Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself? That's ludicrous. There is no way you can do that."

"A guy like him - I'm not blowing smoke - could be the future of cycling."

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

"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."

"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."

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

"I feel good, I feel strong and I've had a high quality three weeks since my last race,"

"For me it was always a simple passion,"

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

"To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it."

"The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy."

"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."

"Never has an athlete's retirement been so welcome."