“A boo is a lot louder than a cheer, if you have 10 people cheering and one person booing all you hear is the booing.”

—  Lance Armstrong

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

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