Latest Lance Armstrong Quotes from Interviews

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• Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Long, Forever

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

• 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

  Dream, Sorry, Believe

  "The World According to Lance" Transcript, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2012.

• 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

  Dream, Mean, Winning

  "Lance Armstrong: I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide". Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

• 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

  Believe, Mind, Body

  "Lance Armstrong: I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide". "American Morning" with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

• I'm cycling to take cancer message worldwide.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Cycling, Messages

  Interview with Kiran Chetry, www.cnn.com. September 24, 2008.

• I'm not trying to justify myself, or say I'm not sorry, or not contrite.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sorry, Trying, Justify

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Mistake, Decision, Reason

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• Everything in my life is in perspective. OK, perspective ebbs and flows. I've had bad days, but they weren't in the last years. A bad day is 2 October 1996: 'We've got bad news for you, you've got advanced testicular cancer and you've got a coin's toss chance of survival.' That's a bad day.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Bad Day, Years

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Jobs, Memories, Three

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Winning, France, Environment

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced because I loved the process, I loved training, getting ready for the race, I loved all of that. And number three I raced for my memories. Regardless of what somebody wants to give or take away, you can't take my memories.

  Lance Armstrong

  Jobs, Memories, Race

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I would love to be in a place, and I may never get there, where I can help people. It's something that I never really cared to advertise. It got advertised. I still do it on one-on-one level almost daily.

  Lance Armstrong

  People, Levels, May

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  People, Needs, Fields

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

  Lance Armstrong

  School, Kids, Weather

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• Nobody is going to feel sorry for me if I've lost a dollar or $100m.

  Lance Armstrong

  Sorry, Dollars, Lost

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Fighting, Race, Training

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Sports, World, Sophisticated

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

  Lance Armstrong

  Thinking, People, Three

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Team, Decision, Imperfect

  "Lance Armstrong interview: An abridged transcript". Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I know what happened to cycling from 1999 to 2005. I saw its growth, I saw its expansion.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cycling, Growth, Expansion

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Thinking, Punishment, Care

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Years, People, Trying

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

  Lance Armstrong

  Gun, Thinking, Doors

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

  Lance Armstrong

  Bullying, Thinking, Dishonesty

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

• 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

  Names, People, Lasts

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.