Frases de Lance Armstrong

Fuente: «Armstrong: "Es humanamente imposible ganar siete Tour de Francia sin doparse".» 18 de enero de 2013. https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/lance-armstrong-confiesa-oprah-dopaje-1704507/0/ 20 Minutos. Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2019.

Hablando sobre sus reflexiones la noche anterior a su operación de cáncer.
Original: «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 baptised».
Fuente: Sapiens Hub. Science Quotes Collection. Editorial Sapiens Hub, 2018. ISBN 9783965087996. https://books.google.es/books?id=QtB7DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT111&dq=3965087991,+9783965087996&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjTqfSI_t7gAhVyt3EKHbOxDdgQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=At%20the%20end%20of%20the%20day%2C%20if%20there%20was%20indeed%20some%20Body%20or%20presence%20standing%20there%20to%20judge%20me%2C&f=false

Original: «Anything's possible. You can be told that 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».
Fuente: Armstrong, Lance. It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life. Editorial Random House, 2012. ISBN 9781448104987. https://books.google.es/books?id=7zO0mbJUWHUC&pg=PT184&dq=Anything+is+possible.+You+can+be+told+that+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.+Lance+Armstrong&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjptvHr5N7gAhXRxYUKHQcsBJIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Anything%20is%20possible.%20You%20can%20be%20told%20that%20you%20have%20a%2090-percent%20chance%20or%20a%2050-percent%20chance%20or%20a%201-percent%20chance%2C%20but%20you%20have%20to%20believe%2C%20and%20you%20have%20to%20fight.%20Lance%20Armstrong&f=false

El doctor italiano Michele Ferrari fue su colaborador en el dopaje.

Original: «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. That surrender even the smallest act of giving up, stayswith me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself wich would I rather live with?».
Fuente: Wright, Monica y Matt Thom. 84 Day Body Alkaline Challenge Action Manual. Editor Fitness Kick Pty Ltd, 2014. ISBN 9780992410421. https://books.google.es/books?id=0RbtAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT2&dq=ISBN%090992410428,+9780992410421&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq_db_6N7gAhXR4IUKHcOcAXIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Pain%20is%20temporary.%20It%20may%20last%20a%20minute%2C%20or%20an%20hour%2C%20or%20a%20day%2C%20or%20a%20year%20but%20eventually%20it%20will%20subside%20and%20&f=false

Comentado mientras se le mostraban vídeos de sus victorias en el Tour.
Fuente: Lance Armstrong confiesa. Publicado en 20 Minutos el 18 de enero de 2013. https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/lance-armstrong-confiesa-oprah-dopaje-1704507/0/ Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2019.

Fuente: Lance Armstrong confiesa. Publicado en 20 Minutos el 18 de enero de 2013. https://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/lance-armstrong-confiesa-oprah-dopaje-1704507/0/ Consultado el 28 de febrero de 2019.

Fuente: Every Second Counts

Fuente: Every Second Counts (2003), p. 157
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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!

Fuente: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 1
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 113
Contexto: 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."

Fuente: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 113
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 267
Contexto: 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.

Fuente: It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life (2000), p. 267
Contexto: 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

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

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

Fuente: 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
Fuente: Armstrong, Lance. It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life. New York: Berkley Books, 2001

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

Fuente: 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