quotes by Lance Armstrong

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (Every Second Counts)

"A boo is a lot louder than a cheer."
— Lance Armstrong

"What ever your 100% looks like, give it."
— Lance Armstrong

"Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts."
— Lance Armstrong

"This is my body, and I can do whatever I want to it. I can push it; Study it; Tweak it; Listen to it. Everybody wants to know what I am on. What am I on? I am on my bike busting my ass six hours a day; What are YOU on?"
— Lance Armstrong

"Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything"
— Lance Armstrong

"If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on."
— Lance Armstrong

"What is stronger, fear or hope?"
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"During our lives...we experience so many setbacks, and fight such a hand-to-hand battle with failure, head down in the rain, just trying to stay upright and to have a little hope."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"I wanted to live, but whether I would or not was mystery, and in the midst of confronting that fact, even at that moment, I was beginning to sense that to stare into the heart of such a fearful mystery wasn't a bad thing. To be afraid is a priceless education. P 99"
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"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."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

""pain is temporary... quitting lasts forever"
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— Lance Armstrong

"I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire."
— Lance Armstrong

"I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to ignore apparent catastrophe - what other choice was there? We are so much stronger than we imagine, and belief is one of the most valiant and long-lived human characteristics. To believe, when all along we humans know that nothing can cure the briefness of this life, that there is no remedy for our basic mortality, that is a form of bravery. To continue believing in yourself...believing in whatever I chose to believe in, that was the most important thing."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"Hope that is the only antidote to fear."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"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."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever"
— Lance Armstrong

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)

""Son,you never quit""
— Lance Armstrong (It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life)