448 Quotes by Lance Armstrong

At this point of my life, I’m not out to protect anybody. I’m out to protect seven people, and they all have the last name Armstrong.

But the fact is that I wouldn’t have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

If you’re trying to hide something, you wouldn’t keep getting away with it for 10 years. Nobody is that clever.

People refer to ‘the good ol’ days’, but I don’t know what they’re talking about. As someone who’s battled cancer, if I lived more than 20 years ago, I’d be a dead man.

The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st – are you riding your bike?

My mom was such a strong character. I don’t want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.

I still don’t get golf.

I’m not a patient person.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool – I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.