Latest Kristin Armstrong Quotes from Interviews

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• I don't think that the Olympic games are a good place to bring up any political issues because it should be about the athletes and about coming together. This year's motto was One World, One Dream and to take that away it's just not a good time.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Dream, Athlete, Thinking

• As a nation, China, is one of the most powerful countries around and if anyone can make something happen, if anything is in their control and they can make things happen and make things the best and look at their country as a beautiful place to come visit and our people are great they're going to do it. I feel like everything that hasn't been perfect over there is out of their hands. They've done everything they can to make it perfect.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Beautiful, Country, Powerful

• I'm not the kind to go out and tell people 'Oh yeah I'm a gold medalist.'

  Kristin Armstrong

  People, Gold, Kind

• I love the sport, I haven't made millions off of it so maybe that's why I just feel like a normal person, I just feel regular, so that when I walk out of my house now with people requesting autographs in the middle of Albertson's aisles. I realize that I did go to the Olympics and did come back with a gold medal, but this is all strange. Somebody pinch me please, because I'm just here on my couch at night watching the Olympics now like everyone else in the world.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Night, People

• In America with the Olympics when you not only have a medal but a gold medal all of a sudden people come out of the wood work and you're treated a little bit differently. I guess that's where my personality is, that's where I just can't get used to all this.

  Kristin Armstrong

  People, Personality, Gold

• If there were any people who were my role models I would just say it was my family's influence and the family and the kids around me.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Kids, People, Role Models

• I was told that there are about 900 gold medal winners in American Olympic history. When I thought about the number 900, I wondered how many kids that are influenced by a gold medal ever get to see a gold medal. What I thought was really neat was that I've already had a couple hundred kids touch my gold medal.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Couple, Kids, Gold

• I talk about role models a lot and wanting to be a role model for kids around me because I didn't have that growing up.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Growing Up, Kids, Role Models

• Cycling is such an endurance sport. I don't think it's the worst thing ever to start when you're in your twenties.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Thinking, Endurance

• And when they start riding a lot of them have full time jobs and are taking vacation days to get by. All of a sudden it becomes so addictive because you're out there with a bunch of women just like yourself, well educated, taking your vacation days, not making any real money, but we're having a blast. And that's US cycling.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Real, Vacation, Like You

• It's funny because when there's something written about me in Velonews or Cyclingnews, the headline isn't "the other" Armstrong; its Armstrong wins another race. With Lance in retirement, everyone I know goes to those sites because they think Lance is racing again.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Retirement, Winning, Thinking

• Everyone knows I drink a lot of Diet Coke, so...I drink chocolate milk after races as my recovery drink, and you won't ever find me without a peanut butter sandwich in my bag at races or without a jar of peanut butter when I am heading to Europe.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Recovery, Race, Europe

• To be honest, if I had to pick somebody to be related to in sport, who's better than Lance Armstrong with what he's done for the sport and with his cancer foundation?

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Cancer, Done

• What I've learned over the last 6 or 7 years, I would love to teach people. I still have a lot to share with people and especially within the US.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Years, People, Lasts

• I feel like I've done everything I can, and what I wanted to do.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Done, Wanted, Feels

• I would love to end my European campaign with the World Championship stripes on my back. But everything else that I have in my mind right now is to continue working with and having my little camps for women cyclists.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Mind, Stripes, Campaigns

• Because cycling is a repetitive front to back motion you never go side to side with your legs, the muscles and joints are really going to protect themselves when you have arthritis. So continually working on opening things up helps to alleviate pain.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Pain, Cycling, Legs

• I'm still making my decision in the next few days on what path I'm going to take. What really makes me excited now is to continue to give back to the sport.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Sports, Giving, Decision

• The first day I was told that I had osteoarthritis, I thought it was the worst thing that could possibly happen to me; I was done. I couldn't do anything. I couldn't run so my life was over. But because I'm a competitive person, I wasn't going to let anything slow me down and I turned it around and made it a positive.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Done, Down And

• Cycling is not impactful. Its just like when you are injured, have a knee surgery or something, there are so many things that you can still do, you just have to find that other passion that's out there.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Passion, Cycling, Knees

• I became a lot more educated on this arthritis thing when I was diagnosed with it, but basically OA is a degenerative disease, which is definitely something that you're not going to be able to stop because it's going to be ongoing, but there are certain things you can do to slow down the progression.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Disease, Able, Ongoing

• I had to quit triathlons, I continued to be active and worked in advertising agency .

  Kristin Armstrong

  Agency, Quitting, Advertising

• Unless you have a specific injury or a disease, I think a lot of people don't quite understand. I think a lot of people put arthritis in the same category. There's a real difference from someone whose joints swell, that's probably rheumatoid arthritis, than what I have.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Real, Thinking, Differences

• It's tough though because of the whole part about getting sponsors and people out to watch women's cycling. I think the only way that women can really work it is that we have to work our way more into these big grand tours that the men have like the Tour de Georgia, Tour of Utah, and Tour of California.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Men, Thinking, Cycling

• When I was a runner and competing in triathlons I was having pains in my hip and just treating it as an injury. I would ice it and take anti-inflammatories, but it just wouldn't go away. I finally went into my doctor and we did x-rays and had an MRI and diagnosed it as osteoarthritis. At that point I stopped doing anything that was impactful to my hip joints.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Pain, Doctors, Ice