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It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
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.
In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.
A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
I can get up in the morning and look myself in the mirror and my family can look at me too and that's all that matters.
What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.
My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.
Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.
I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.
I got the three things I wanted. I did my job, I worked hard in the process, and I cherish the memories, and they're mine.
I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.
Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.
The answer is hard work. What are you doing on Christmas Eve? Are you riding your bike? January 1st - are you riding your bike?
Before my diagnosis [cancer] I was a competitor but not a fierce competitor. When I was diagnosed, that turned me into a fighter.
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
It's tougher for me. But I don't think that's imperative to me starting a new movement, or revive an old movement, to help people.
To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you. I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time.
The way you live your life, the perspective you select, is a choice you make every single day when you wake up. It's yours to decide.
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.
My mother told me...if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.
My career is going to be played out year by year. Will I be here in 2004? I don't know. The record won't keep me here. Happiness will.
On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.
Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.
For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.
There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what I was getting into.
It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.
We all want to be forgiven. There's a lot of really, really bad people who want to be forgiven but will never be forgiven, and I might be in that camp.
I rode, and I rode, and I rode. I rode like I had never ridden, punishing my body up and down every hill I could find. I rode when no one else would ride.
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.
I didn't just jump back on the bike and win. There were a lot of ups and downs, good results and bad results, but this time I didn't let the lows get to me.
I have never doped … I have competed as an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one.
A bike ride. Yes, that's it! A simple bike ride. It's what I love to do and most days I can't believe they pay me to do it. A day is not the same without it.
It was great to fight in training, great to fight in the race, but you don't need to fight in a press conference, or an interview, or a personal interaction.
I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.
For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices like that.
Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be remembered for.
The team wasn't just riders. It was the mechanics, masseurs, chefs, soigneurs, and doctors. But the most important man on the team may have been the chiropractor.
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.
I am flawed, deeply flawed. I didn't invent the [doping] culture but I didn't try to stop the culture and that's my mistake, and that's what I have to be sorry for.
For 15 years I was a complete arsehole to a dozen people. I said I would try and make it right with those people, and anybody that gave me an audience, I was there.
The day it all changed. The day I stated never to take anything for granted. The day I learned to take charge of my life. It was the day I was diagnosed with cancer.
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.
My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.