Lance Armstrong Quotes
340 Lance Armstrong Quotes
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The irony was, the worse I felt, the better I got.
Lance Armstrong
I had opened up a gap in the field. I knew that I was going to be cured, that was the way it would go, with a big surging attack, just like in a race.
Lance Armstrong
Cancer picked the wrong guy.
Lance Armstrong
I wanted to tear the legs off cancer, the way I tore the legs off other riders on a hill.
Lance Armstrong
When it [cancer] looked around for a body to hand out in, it made a big mistake when it chose mine. Big mistake.
Lance Armstrong
All of a sudden, a figure moved up on my left. It was a woman in her 50s on a heavy mountain bike, and she went right by me. I couldn’t keep up with her. I had to admit I was in bad shape.
Lance Armstrong
I can still do this, I told myself. I might not be able to do it like I used to, but I can still do it.
Lance Armstrong
In the midst of chemo, my licence had expired. I could have put off renewing it until I felt better and had grown some hair back, but I decided not to. I wanted this picture so that when I got better, I would never forget how sick I’ve been. You have to fight.
Lance Armstrong
Cancer could be an opportunity as well as a responsibility.
Lance Armstrong
Fight like hell, just like I did.
Lance Armstrong
I wanted to be cured, and cured now. I didn’t want to wait a year to find out.
Lance Armstrong
Love and cancer were strange companions, but in my case they came along at the same time.
Lance Armstrong
I didn’t have cancer anymore, but I didn’t not have it, either.
Lance Armstrong
I was a cancer survivor first and an athlete second.
Lance Armstrong
Too many athletes live as though the problems of the world don’t concern them. We are isolated by our wealth and narrow focus, and our elitism.
Lance Armstrong
One of the redeeming things about being an athlete – one of the real services we can perform – is to redefine what’s humanly possible. We cause people to reconsider their limits, to see what looks like a wall may really just be an obstacle in the mind.
Lance Armstrong
I counted and recounted my financial assets and sweated every mortgage payment, wondering if I would ever make another dime from cycling.
Lance Armstrong
In an odd way, having cancer was easier than recover – at least in chemo I was doing something, instead of just waiting for it to come back.
Lance Armstrong
I was still struggling to get past the idea that I could have lost my life, and it was difficult to know where to begin again.
Lance Armstrong
I didn’t know what I wanted, or even what was possible, I couldn’t help feeling that cycling was trivial.
Lance Armstrong
Cancer does one of two things to a relationship: it either brings you closer together, or it tears you apart.
Lance Armstrong
I had missed most of my 20s. I was to busy being a pro athlete and making a living from the age of 15 on to do the things most people in their 20s do….
Lance Armstrong
Carpe diem, I told myself, seize the day.
Lance Armstrong
While I was being treat I was actively killing the cancer, but when the treatment stopped, I felt powerless, like I wasn’t doing anything but waiting for the other shoe to fall.
Lance Armstrong
I was [afraid]. I had been strong as a bull on the bike, and what if I wasn’t anymore? Or what if racing could make me sick again?
Lance Armstrong
I made my mind up: I would try to race again.
Lance Armstrong
I don’t feel like damaged goods. I just feel out of shape, which I am.
Lance Armstrong
I was now officially a cancer survivor.
Lance Armstrong
How do you survive cancer? That’s the part no one gives you any advice on.
Lance Armstrong
I was physically recovered, but my soul was still healing. I was entering a phase called survivorship.
Lance Armstrong
Things change, intentions get lost. You have another beer.
Lance Armstrong
If I had a bad day, I had a tendency to say, ‘Well, I’ve just been through too much. I’ve been through three surgeries, three months of chemo, and a year of hell, and that’s the reading I’m not riding well. My body is just never going to be the same.’ But what I really should have been saying was, ‘Hey, it’s just a bad day.’
Lance Armstrong
I was making a fraction of my old salary, and I had no new endorsements. I … called it ‘an eighty percent cancer tax.’
Lance Armstrong
[I] thought about how much I didn’t want to be there. When you start out thinking that way, things can’t possibly get any better.
Lance Armstrong
This is not how I want to spend my life, freezing and soaked and in the gutter.
Lance Armstrong
I was a bum. I played golf every day, I water skied, I drank beer, and I lay on the sofa and channel-surfed. But it wasn’t fun.
Lance Armstrong
I’d been given a second chance and I was determined to take advantage of it.
Lance Armstrong
I hated the bike, but I thought, What else am I going to do? Be a coffee boy in an office?
Lance Armstrong
I was just being a bum.
Lance Armstrong
Golf wasn’t the issue. The issue was finding myself again.
Lance Armstrong
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