Lance Armstrong Quotes

I survive all those battles," she growled, "and I get defeated by a stupid chunk of rock!

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

I've been knocked down a lot of times.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

It's not just always going to be easy and winning games; you have to go through the downside as well.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That’s what it’s all about.

Don't let a kick in the ass stop you. It's how you cope that says what you are.

Don't give up. You're going to get kicked in the teeth. A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success.

No matter how hard it rains, withstand the pain.

I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

That's how it goes, my friend. The problem is not falling a captive, it's how to avoid surrender.

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

Can't escape pain, kiddo. Battle through it and you get stronger.

The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.

Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard.

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees.

Expand your notion of what adversity is.

You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.