Lance Armstrong

“A boo is a lot louder than a cheer.”

“The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful sur...”

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

“I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organised religion growing up, but I felt I had...”

“Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.”

“Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.”

“Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.”

“I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a...”

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

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

“Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and they know what works and doesn't work.”

“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.”

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

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