Top 160 Lance Armstrong Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

52. “You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.”

— Lance Armstrong

53. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

54. “Chasing records doesn’t keep me on my bike. Happiness does.”

— Lance Armstrong

55. “If there is a defining characteristic of a man as opposed to a boy, maybe it’s patience.”

— Lance Armstrong

56. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

57. “Winning is about heart, not just legs. It’s got to be in the right place.”

— Lance Armstrong

58. “When I was sick, I didn’t want to die. When I race, I don’t want to lose. Dying and losing, it’s the same thing.”

— Lance Armstrong

59. “I have never had a single positive doping test, and I do not take performance-enhancing drugs.”

— Lance Armstrong

60. “Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.”

— Lance Armstrong

61. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

62. “Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.”

— Lance Armstrong

63. “I tried to control the narrative.”

— Lance Armstrong

64. “It can’t be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.”

— Lance Armstrong

65. “I’ve read that I flew up the hills and mountains of France. But you don’t fly up a hill. You struggle slowly and painfully up a hill, and maybe, if you work very hard, you get to the top ahead of everybody else.”

— Lance Armstrong

66. “Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.”

— Lance Armstrong

67. “What is stronger, fear or hope?”

— Lance Armstrong

68. “Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.”

— Lance Armstrong

69. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

70. “Motivation can’t take you very far if you don’t have the legs.”

— Lance Armstrong

71. “Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.”

— Lance Armstrong

72. “So if there is a purpose to the suffering that is cancer, I think it must be this: it’s meant to improve us.”

— Lance Armstrong

73. “I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.”

— Lance Armstrong

74. “If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there’s this huge block in World War One with no winners, and there’s another block in World War Two. And then it seems like there’s another world war.”

— Lance Armstrong

75. “Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.”

— Lance Armstrong

76. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

77. “I don’t need a field of a thousand people. Anybody can tell you that whoever needs help, I’m happy to help.”

— Lance Armstrong

78. “No one automatically gives you respect just because you show up. You have to earn it.”

— Lance Armstrong

79. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

80. “Athletes don’t have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn’t get you anywhere in a race.”

— Lance Armstrong

81. “We are much better than we know.”

— Lance Armstrong

82. “We have unrealized capacities that sometimes only emerge in crisis.”

— Lance Armstrong

83. “Made plenty of mistakes along the way – all of which I am truly sorry.”

— Lance Armstrong

84. “The idea that anybody was forced, or pressured, or encouraged, is not true.”

— Lance Armstrong

85. “Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I’m here.”

— Lance Armstrong

86. “I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.”

— Lance Armstrong

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

— Lance Armstrong

88. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

89. “The question was, which would the chemo kill first: the cancer or me?”

— Lance Armstrong

90. “I still don’t get golf.”

— Lance Armstrong

91. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

92. “Forever is a big word. I’m not going anywhere.”

— Lance Armstrong

93. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

94. “At least I didn’t invent a dead girlfriend.”

— Lance Armstrong

95. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

96. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

97. “A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.”

— Lance Armstrong

98. “I’ve given gifts in the Tour de France and it’s come back to bit me. So no gifts.”

— Lance Armstrong

99. “I have never doped. I can say it again, but I’ve said it for seven years.”

— Lance Armstrong

100. “That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don’t have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don’t have a good reason for doing it all.”

— Lance Armstrong