Lance Armstrong Men Quotations

I wanted to win the Tour de France. And when I won it once, I wanted to do it again, and again, and again, it just kept going. So there wasn't another competitive environment.

Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He covers love, lust, showbiz, triumph, and despair – and he manages to be both funny and inspiring about all of it. It’s an important book that I think can help to spread goodness around the world. Something we desperately need.

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.

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

If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it's patience.

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.

I become a happier man each time I suffer

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

Never has an athlete's retirement been so welcome.

If you've started treatment and you miss a week or two weeks, it's potentially fatal. For me and the foundation, we just looked at that and asked not just what can we do, but how does it fit into our mission?

Those are motivating moments for me. That's the way I can give back to someone who is in the same position I was.

There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'

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.

Nobody wants to hear how I think I've been mistreated, or how I think my punishment should be lifted, or tweaked, or reduced. Nobody wants to hear me say that, nobody cares what I think about this. I get it.

He's the most recognizable American rider in the sport today. At the races, men, women and children crowd around the Discovery bus to see George. He's the leader of this team.

So it was a good field, but the most important thing was that the team came up with a very difficult plan for me. Lance helped me a lot and having an idol, a mentor like that to come up with a plan and for me to put the icing on the cake was a huge accomplishment. It taught me that if I believe in myself, I can push my own limits. I hope to achieve that here, next year even more, and hopefully arrive at the top eventually.