“My mother told me… if you're going to get anywhere, you're going to have to do it yourself, because no one is going to do it for you.”

—  Lance Armstrong , book It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life

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

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