Lance Armstrong quotes:

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.

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.

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

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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.

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.

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

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

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

You know, once I was thinking of quitting when I was diagnosed with brain, lung and testicular cancer all at the same time. But with the love and support of my friends and family, I got back on the bike and won the Tour de France five times in a row. But I'm sure you have a good reason to quit.

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.

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

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.

Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.

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

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

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.

Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.

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

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.

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

For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.

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.

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.

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

The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.

Everybody wants to know what I'm on. What am I on? I'm on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?

The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father.

I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.

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

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

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

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

People refer to 'the good ol' days', but I don't know what they're talking about. As someone who's battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I'd be a dead man

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

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

I've read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don't fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.

Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.

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

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

A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

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

The ban doesn't have anything to do with Livestrong or my ability to work in [the cancer] community. Perhaps it speeds it up. I don't know the examples in Great Britain of athletes who have fallen. I know the examples in the United States - the Tiger Woods, the Michael Vicks, even the Bill Clintons - people who are still out there able to work.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

Live strong is exactly I guess what it says. It's one thing to live, but it's another thing to live strong, to attack the day and attack your life with a whole new attitude. This was a gift for me. I guess before the illness I just lived. Now, after the illness, I live strong.

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

I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

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.

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.

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.

[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness ... Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.

Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things-whether health or a car or an old sense of self-has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

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

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

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

I don't think history is stupid.History ultimately rectifies a lot of these things. If you had to ask me what I think happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty in 50 years. Maybe somebody else's name is there. But you can't leave it empty.

One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.

Pain is Temporary, Quitting Lasts Forever.

f 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

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

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.

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.

If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.

It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.

When I made the decision - when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision - it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.

I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.

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.

If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there's another world war.

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

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

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

[A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it...

At least I didn't invent a dead girlfriend

At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven. If so, I was going to reply, You know what? You're right. Fine.

At this point of my life, I'm not out to protect anybody. I'm out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

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

Average is Your Enemy.

Cancer doesnâ??t care if youâ??re Republican or Democrat.

Do it even if you shouldn't, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.

During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope.

Fear is priceless education.

Forever is a big word. I'm not going anywhere.

Giving up was never an option

Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?

I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.

I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself...believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing.

I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.

I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture,

I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.

I didn't live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.

I don't need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I'm happy to help.

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

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

I guess if a person didn't quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.

I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don't really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn't really mean much.

I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

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

I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.

I realize that there are many variables outside my control in my quest, but focusing on the big goal down the road really motivates me. To help me stay focused, I set micro-goals such as races or training achievements that bring me one step closer to being at my best for major goals

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.