Losing ... really does say something about who you are. Among other things it measures are: do you blame others, or do you own the loss? Do you analyze your failure, or just complain about bad luck? If you're willing to examine failure, and to look not just at your outward physical performance, but your internal workings, too, losing can be valuable. How you behave in those moments can perhaps be more self-defining than winning could ever be. Sometimes losing shows you for who you really are.
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way. - Lance Armstrong
If you ever get a second chance in life for something, you've got to go all the way.
- Lance Armstrong
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire. - Lance Armstrong
I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy. - Lance Armstrong
The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.
My advice to you is never stop believing. - Lance Armstrong
My advice to you is never stop believing.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. - Lance Armstrong
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others. - Lance Armstrong
It's simple. Success comes from training harder, living better and digging deeper than the others.
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. - Lance Armstrong
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight. - Lance Armstrong
Anything is possible, but you have to believe and you have to fight.
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… - Lance Armstrong
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…
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