448 Quotes by Lance Armstrong

The Tour de France is not the only bike race in the world, but it is the biggest, so the possibility could still exist to do a Tour of Italy, a Tour of Spain.

So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it's meant to improve us.

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

I started fast and hard, it was difficult with a hard climb and long downhill with headwind. It was a 100 percent effort all the way but that's OK,

No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it

I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.

I sit around some nights and I wonder what it would be like to be retired,

The ban is completely out of my hands. And I think in most people's minds, even if it's unrealistic to them, it's one that I left myself with no choice on.

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