Frases de Lance Armstrong
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Lance Armstrong é um ex-ciclista profissional americano, campeão de ciclismo em estrada em 1993. Ficou famoso por ter vencido o Tour de France por sete vezes consecutivas — um recorde absoluto nessa prova — entre 1999 e 2005. Todavia, em 2012, alguns anos após encerrar sua carreira esportiva, perdeu todos os títulos obtidos depois de 1998 e foi banido do ciclismo competitivo pela União Ciclística Internacional, em razão do uso de dopagem bioquímica.Como consequência perdeu os sete títulos do Tour de France que conquistara entre 1999 e 2005, período em que voltou a competir, após se ter curado de um cancro testicular, diagnosticado em 1996.

Em novembro de 2012, a revista Sports Illustrated divulgou uma lista de atletas mais anti-desportivos do ano. O ciclista ficou na primeira posição. Dez anos antes, a revista já o havia premiado com o troféu Fair Play por seus valores desportivos. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Setembro 1971   •   Outros nomes لانس آرمسترانق
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Lance Armstrong: Frases em inglês

“One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.”

As quoted in "What's Possible" in Fast Company (19 December 2007) http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/al0401.html
Unsourced variant: Being a champion is redefining what's humanly possible.

“I'm a flawed character… I viewed this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times.”

Lance Armstrong Admits to Doping, 'One Big Lie' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323468604578248582288523660.html, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, January 18, 2013.

“All their players tested positive… for being assholes.”

About the French 2006 FIFA World Cup team during his speech at the ESPY Awards, as quoted in "Armstrong accuses France World Cup team of being 'assholes'" in The Guardian (16 July 2006) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/sport/story/0,,1821547,00.html; he later commented on his use of profanity: "If they'd lived with me and heard me at home, they'd know it was a step down.."

“Jake, why are you sitting in the front? I thought you liked it in the rear.”

On stage comment to Jake Gyllenhaal, who has been recently nominated for an Oscar for Brokeback Mountain, at the ESPY Awards (16 July 2006)

“I don't have anything against organized religion per se. We all need something in our lives. I personally just have not accepted that belief. But I'm one of the few.”

As quoted in response to the comment "For a miracle man, you're not very religious", in "10 questions for Lance Armstrong" by Bill Saporito in TIME magazine (28 September 2003)

“I want all of you to know that I intend to beat this disease. And further, I intend to ride again as a professional cyclist.”

Announcing that he had been diagnosed with testicular cancer in a press conference (8 October 1996) http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/archives/oct96/lance.html