448 Quotes by Lance Armstrong

Your past forms you, whether you like it or not. Each encounter and experience has its own effect, and you’re shaped the way the wind shapes a mesquite tree on a plain.

Made plenty of mistakes along the way – all of which I am truly sorry.

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.

I’ve committed to surfing the rest of my life.

Losing and dying: it’s the same thing.

Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I’m here.

Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits.

What matters is ultimately what collectively those people on the street – whether that’s the cycling community, the cancer community – it matters what they think.

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