448 Quotes by Lance Armstrong

I will return to Spain to rest up and be back on the bike in a couple of days.

When you win, you don't examine it very much, except to congratulate yourself. You easily, and wrongly, assume it has something to do with your rare qualities as a person. But winning only measures how hard you've worked and how physically talented you are; it doesn't particularly define you beyond those characteristics.

Jan's not finished. He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one on the chin today but he always comes back and is strong in the last week.

I can beat him on a f**king mountain bike with knobbies.

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

Jan's not finished, ... He starts slow and he's a tough guy who doesn't give up. He might have taken one on the chin today but he always comes back and is strong in the last week.

I don't want to denigrate the race and say it is just a preparation race, because I don't feel bad about the training I have done,

[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.

Jan is completely different from other years. I have known him for seven, eight or nine years, and he clearly has a new motivation and a new perspective. I think he will win.