If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
From Lance Armstrong
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.
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.
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.
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.
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.
It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.
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