Top 160 Lance Armstrong Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

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2. “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

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3. “Pain is temporary. Eventually it will subside. If I quit, however, the surrender stays with me.”

— Lance Armstrong

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4. “Knowledge is power, community is strength and positive attitude is everything.”

— Lance Armstrong

5. “If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you’ve got to go all the way.”

— Lance Armstrong

6. “Average is Your Enemy.”

— Lance Armstrong

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7. “We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.”

— Lance Armstrong

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8. “Giving up was never an option.”

— Lance Armstrong

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9. “Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.”

— Lance Armstrong

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10. “It’s simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.”

— Lance Armstrong

11. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

12. “What ever your 100% looks like, give it.”

— Lance Armstrong

13. “I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days.”

— Lance Armstrong

14. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

15. “I exercise everyday. I swim, I bike, I run and I go to the gym.”

— Lance Armstrong

16. “Everybody wants to know what I’m on. What am I on? I’m on my bike busting my ass six hours a day. What are you on?”

— Lance Armstrong

17. “If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.”

— Lance Armstrong

18. “Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.”

— Lance Armstrong

19. “I guess if a person didn’t quit when the going got tough, they wouldn’t have anything to regret for the rest of their life.”

— Lance Armstrong

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20. “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

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21. “The biggest losers are those who care only about winning.”

— Lance Armstrong

22. “What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potential embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint.”

— Lance Armstrong

23. “I become a happier man each time I suffer.”

— Lance Armstrong

24. “My house is burned, but I can see the sky.”

— Lance Armstrong

25. “The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.”

— Lance Armstrong

26. “If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or fight like hell.”

— Lance Armstrong

27. “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

28. “Me and running don’t always see eye to eye. Some days it hurts more than others. But it doesn’t mean I don’t do it. I deal with it and I keep running because not everything that is good for you, always feels good for you.”

— Lance Armstrong

29. “The body is telling the mind to stop. The mind is telling the body to shut up.”

— Lance Armstrong

30. “My advice to you is never stop believing.”

— Lance Armstrong

31. “Fear is priceless education.”

— Lance Armstrong

32. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

34. “It’s something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.”

— Lance Armstrong

35. “I’m not a patient person.”

— Lance Armstrong

36. “There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say: ‘Enough is enough.’”

— Lance Armstrong

37. “Hope that is the only antidote to fear.”

— Lance Armstrong

38. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

39. “The last thing I’ll say for the people that don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics, I’m sorry for you. I’m sorry you can’t dream big and I’m sorry you don’t believe in miracles...”

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

41. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

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43. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

44. “Losing and dying: it’s the same thing.”

— Lance Armstrong

45. “I believe that the mind powers the body, and once the mind says we want to do it, then the body will follow.”

— Lance Armstrong

46. “My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.”

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

48. “It gave me a chance to re-evaluate my life and my career. Cancer certainly gives things a new perspective. I would not have won the Tour de France if I had not had cancer. It gave me new strength and focus.”

— Lance Armstrong

49. “I didn’t live a lot of lies, but I lived one big one.”

— Lance Armstrong

50. “Well, you better ride like you stole something ’cause you are about to win a stage in the Tour de Fance.”

— Lance Armstrong