448 Quotes by Lance Armstrong

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.

I realized that the Tour is the one race that makes me tick, ... It's the one that wakes me up early. And it's the one, when I'm suffering like a dog in training, that makes me dig that much deeper. Nothing compares.

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.

but I don't know if I want to spend $1.5 million and two years of my life pursuing this. I have better things to do.

I actually spoke to him for about 30 minutes and he didn't say any of that stuff to me personally,

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

But I know Johan. Seven years in a row he's driven into Paris in car No. 1, and he doesn't want to drive in car No. 3 or 5 or 10.

I also did this at the Tour of California, which was pretty cool. Today, we helped out when necessary, but a lot of what I did was talk business with Johan.

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.