Lance Armstrong idézet

Eredeti: Személyes barátom, de minden jogunk megvan ahhoz, hogy ne értsünk egyet egymás barátaival.

véleménye szerint a maraton nehezebb volt, mint egy Tour de France
A New York City Marathon-on
Eredeti: 2006. november
Forrás: Lance Armstrong a New York Marathonon - 3x2s.hu http://www.3x2s.hu/hun/hun_index.php?nav=loadpage&DIR=info&file_name=sport1011#lanceinnym

2009-es astanai visszatérésével kapcsolatban a livestrong.org weboldalon
Eredeti: 2008. október 7.
Forrás: A Wikipédia azonos témájú cikke
Forrás: Armstrong coming out of retirement for another Tour - USATODAY.com http://www.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/2008-09-09-armstrong-comeback_N.htm

egy, a koppenhágai egyetemi klinikán dolgozó szakember véleménye
Doppingvádjai
Eredeti: 2009

az Eurosportnak adott interjújában
2009. augusztus 29.
2010-es Tour de France
Forrás: Armstrong jövőre meg akarja nyerni a Tourt - Sport Géza http://sportgeza.hu/sport/hirek/2009/08/30/armstrong_jovore_meg_akarja_nyerni_a_tourt/

véleménye szerint a maraton nehezebb volt, mint egy Tour de France
A New York City Marathon-on
Eredeti: 2006. november
Forrás: Szilasi László, Tordai Csaba: „Lance Armstrong élete” - Velo.hu

egy helyi Austin-i CBS tagnak
azt mondta, már nincs kapcsolatban a politikával
2005. augusztus 16.A 2009-es Tour de France-on
a Sports Illustrated májusi számában megjelent interjúban
tisztázni kezdte, hogy szándékában áll belebonyolódni a politikába, de csak politikai aktivistaként a rák ellen
Eredeti: 2006

Forrás: Lásd: #Alberto Contador
Forrás: Heves fikázásba kezdtek az excsapattársak - Sport Géza http://sportgeza.hu/sport/2009/07/28/contador/

2000-es magyarországi látogatásával kapcsolatban
A New York City Marathon-on

az Eurosportnak adott interjújában
2009. augusztus 29.
2010-es Tour de France
Forrás: Alberto Contador, Armstrong csapattársa

A bukás megváltoztatja a versenyprogramomat, ugyanakkor ezzel most nem tudok foglalkozni, kizárólag a gyógyulásomra koncentrálok...
2009-es balesete miatti műtétével kapcsolatosan
szóvivőjén keresztül
2009. március
Forrás: Műtét vár Armstrongra - FigyelőNet http://www.fn.hu/sportmix/20090324/mutet_var_armstrongra/

a The Observer című lapnak egy interjúban
Forrás: Serena got the message, now it's Lance's turn as French cheers become jeers for US stars - guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/06/france.sport

Forrás: Every Second Counts

Forrás: Every Second Counts (2003), p. 157
Kontextus: The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

Farewell speech at the Champs-Élysées podium, after winning his seventh Tour de France, quoted in "Paris salutes its American hero" by Caroline Wyatt in BBC News (24 July 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4713283.stm
Kontextus: Finally, the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics: I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. But this is one hell of a race. This is a great sporting event and you should stand around and believe it. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets — this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So Vive le Tour forever!

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 1
Kontextus: I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour. I want to cross one last finish line as my wife and my ten children applaud, and then I want to lie down in a field of those famous French sunflowers and gracefully expire, the perfect contradiction to my once anticipated poignant early demise.

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 113
Kontextus: I wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsiblity to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, "But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven." If so, I was going to reply, "You know what? You're right. Fine."

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 113
Kontextus: I wished hard, but I didn't pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsiblity to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn't a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I'd been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, "But you were never a Christian, so you're going the other way from heaven." If so, I was going to reply, "You know what? You're right. Fine."

As quoted in Forbes Magazine (3 December 2001)
Kontextus: Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

Press conference (8 October 1996)
Kontextus: I want to finish by saying that I intend to be an avid spokesperson for testicular cancer once I have beaten the disease... I want this to be a positive experience and I want to take this opportunity to help others who might someday suffer from the same circumstance I face today.

Farewell speech at the Champs-Élysées podium, after winning his seventh Tour de France, quoted in "Paris salutes its American hero" by Caroline Wyatt in BBC News (24 July 2005) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/4713283.stm
Kontextus: Finally, the last thing I’ll say to the people who don’t believe in cycling, the cynics and the sceptics: I'm sorry for you. I’m sorry that you can’t dream big. I'm sorry you don't believe in miracles. But this is one hell of a race. This is a great sporting event and you should stand around and believe it. You should believe in these athletes, and you should believe in these people. I'll be a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets — this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So Vive le Tour forever!

On the team bus, after winning his fifth Tour de France in 2003, as quoted in "On your marks, get set … go!" in The Guardian by William Fotheringham in The Guardian (30 June 2007) http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/jun/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview7
Kontextus: No one trains like me. No one rides like me. This jersey's mine. I live for this jersey. It's my life. No one's taking it away from me. This fucking jersey's mine.

As quoted in "10 questions for Lance Armstrong" by Bill Saporito in TIME magazine (28 September 2003) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1005777,00.html
Kontextus: I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering.

As quoted in Forbes Magazine (3 December 2001)
Kontextus: Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things — whether health or a car or an old sense of self — has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 267
Kontextus: Anything is possible. You can be told you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. By fight I mean arm yourself with all the available information, get second opinions, third opinions, and fourth opinions. Understand what has invaded your body, and what the possible cures are. It's another fact of cancer that the more informed and empowered patient has a better chance of long-term survival. What if I had lost? What if I relapsed and the cancer came back? I still believe I would have gained something in the struggle, because in what time I had left I would have been a more complete, compassionate, and intelligent man, and therefore more alive.

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 267
Kontextus: Anything is possible. You can be told you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. By fight I mean arm yourself with all the available information, get second opinions, third opinions, and fourth opinions. Understand what has invaded your body, and what the possible cures are. It's another fact of cancer that the more informed and empowered patient has a better chance of long-term survival. What if I had lost? What if I relapsed and the cancer came back? I still believe I would have gained something in the struggle, because in what time I had left I would have been a more complete, compassionate, and intelligent man, and therefore more alive.

As quoted in "King of the Hill" by Kelli Anderson in Sports Illustrated (5 August 2002) http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/2002/sportsman/flashbacks/lance/king_of_the_hill

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

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Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

"Back in the Saddle - An Essay by Lance Armstrong", as quoted in The Book of Action (2006) by Jeramy L. Patrick and Justin L. Helms, p. 68
Forrás: Armstrong, Lance. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life. New York: Berkley Books, 2001

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Forrás: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

Exchange with Floyd Landis, at Stage 17 of the Tour de France as reported in "Score another for Armstrong" in VeloNews (22 July 2004) http://velonews.com/article/6638