LANCE ARMSTRONG

Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.

I’ve never lost a game. I just ran out of time.

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure.

I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I think that’s true for a lot of women—sports gives you a part of your life where you can work at something and you look in the mirror and you like that person.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.

For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing… the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.

Passion first and everything will fall into place.

I tell the kids, somebody’s gotta win, somebody’s gotta lose. Just don’t fight about it. Just try to get better.

Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Some people say I have attitude – maybe I do…but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right there.

Competitive sports are played mainly on a five-and-a-half inch court, the space between your ears.

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.

You might not be able to outthink, out market or outspend your competition, but you can outwork them.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don’t rush. Be quick, but don’t hurry.

Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.

I’ve failed over & over & over again in my life & that is why I succeed.

To uncover your true potential you must first find your own limits and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.

What keeps me going is not winning, but the quest for reaching potential in myself as a coach and my kids as divers. It’s the pursuit of excellence.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.

Life is gonna throw you curve balls and it’s how you deal with them and your attitude and your work ethic.

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.

It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” “Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that’s why people gravitate to that so much.

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

There are only two options regarding commitment. You’re either IN or you’re OUT. There is no such thing as life in-between.

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self motivation.

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.

Winning solves everything.

If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is tem...

I don’t have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

When you’re riding, only the race in which you’re riding is important.

Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.

95. “You’re never a loser until you quit trying.

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.

If you have everything under control, you’re not moving fast enough.

What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.”

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

I don’t plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously, we plan on winning.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

There may be people that have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.

The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.

Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself.

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

In the end, the game comes down to one thing: man against man. May the best man win.

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

Most talented players don’t always succeed. Some don’t even make the team. It’s more what’s inside.

The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

Today I will do what others won’t, so tomorrow I can accomplish what others can’t.

The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man’s determination.