Lance Armstrong Sports Quotations

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

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.

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

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

I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

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

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

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's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.

It's great to beat your goals -- and it's not that sports goals are bad, but this one was much better, ... This combines my two main passions in life, outside of my children.

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.

What makes a great endurance athlete is the ability to absorb potenial embarrassment, and to suffer without complaint. I was discovering that if it was a matter of gritting my teeth, not caring how it looked, and outlasting everybody else, I won. It didn't seem to matter what sport it was-in a straight-ahead, long-distant race, I could beat anybody. If it was a suffer-fest, I was good at it.

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

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

The latter part of the year with the rumor, that was a nightmare. Fortunately, sports fans see through it.