Top 160 Lance Armstrong Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I’m not trying to justify myself, or say I’m not sorry, or not contrite.”

— Lance Armstrong

102. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

103. “But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn’t been punched.”

— Lance Armstrong

104. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

105. “I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.”

— Lance Armstrong

106. “If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn’t do it again because I don’t think you have to. If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again.”

— Lance Armstrong

107. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

108. “I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.”

— Lance Armstrong

109. “If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.”

— Lance Armstrong

110. “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...”

— Lance Armstrong

111. “There’s no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can’t come back. So I have every right to come back.”

— Lance Armstrong

112. “We’ve all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil.”

— Lance Armstrong

113. “If I can’t face my accusers, that’s a joke. We did that in medieval times.”

— Lance Armstrong

114. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

115. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

116. “I’m cycling to take cancer message worldwide.”

— Lance Armstrong

117. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

118. “If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.”

— Lance Armstrong

119. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

120. “How do you fight an invisible opponent like suspicion?”

— Lance Armstrong

121. “If we don’t somehow stem the tide of childhood obesity, we’re going to have a huge problem.”

— Lance Armstrong

122. “A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.”

— Lance Armstrong

123. “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

124. “Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I’ve lost a dollar or $100m.”

— Lance Armstrong

125. “I guess if I looked at it from an athletic standpoint, I don’t really need to win another Tour. Seven Tours for me was a dream, six broke the record, so that eight doesn’t really mean much.”

— Lance Armstrong

126. “You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can’t teach them to be strong.”

— Lance Armstrong

127. “Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.”

— Lance Armstrong

128. “Make every negative into a positive,” as my mother says. 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

129. “There was more happiness in the process, in the build, in the preparation. The winning was almost phoned in.”

— Lance Armstrong

130. “Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.”

— Lance Armstrong

131. “There was certainly a dishonesty there that I think is totally regrettable and inexcusable. The ringleading, the bullying: not totally true.”

— Lance Armstrong

132. “It’s frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.”

— Lance Armstrong

133. “What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I’ve said all along that I will not live as long as the average person.”

— Lance Armstrong

134. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

135. “It’s ironic, I used to ride my bike to make a living. Now I just want to live so that I can ride.”

— Lance Armstrong

136. “Some things you can’t win, though I don’t like to admit it. I’m not used to losing much of anything, whether its a race or a debate, but among the things that I nearly lost are my life, my neck, and my good name, and I’ve gained a realization: a life of unbroken success is not only impossible, it’s probably not even good for you...”

— Lance Armstrong

137. “It’s nice to win. I’ll never win again. I may have to take up golf – take on Tiger.”

— Lance Armstrong

138. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

139. “When I made the decision – when my team-mates made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision – it was a bad decision and an imperfect time. But it happened.”

— Lance Armstrong

140. “The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don’t like the end-zone dance. I think that’s unfortunate. That feeling – the finish line, the last couple of meters – is what motivates me.”

— Lance Armstrong

141. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

142. “One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.”

— Lance Armstrong

143. “If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.”

— Lance Armstrong

144. “The unwillingness to accept anything short of victory, that underlying fury, is the fundamental building block of my bottomless motivation to succeed. It is my credo in all that I do in life from battling cancer to bicycle racing.”

— Lance Armstrong

145. “I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.”

— Lance Armstrong

146. “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.”

— Lance Armstrong

147. “Life to me is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits.”

— Lance Armstrong

148. “I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.”

— Lance Armstrong

149. “We sped on, across the plains, toward Metz. I hung back, saving myself. It is called the Race of Truth. The early stages separate the strong riders from the weak. Now the weak would be eliminated altogether.”

— Lance Armstrong

150. “Do it even if you shouldn’t, do it becuase you want to, do it becuase it will make things better.”

— Lance Armstrong