Lance Armstrong Quotes

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.

I symbolized doping... My phone rarely rings. I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of riders who call me.

Lance Armstrong has joined the legion of the lost, the great athletes who were barred or exiled for sins admitted or charged or suspected.

You've got Jon Jones, for instance. That guy is the best, one of the best fighters in the world, but he's a cheater.

Truth is, a triathlete won the Tour de France seven times.

I'm not sure Mark McGwire was a Hall of Famer to begin with.

When I see pot-bellied cyclists wearing the 'maillot jaune,' it appals me.

You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.

I know it is possible to win the Tour without taking anything.

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.

Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.

I've given gifts in the Tour de France and it's come back to bit me. So no gifts.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

Google might be doping the horses.

Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.

It was a tough school. The kids on the debating team took steroids!

People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.

[A 2005 response to doping allegations] Unfortunately, the witch hunt continues and tomorrow's article is nothing short of tabloid journalism. The paper even admits in its own article that the science in question here is faulty and that I have no way to defend myself. They state: 'There will therefore be no counter-exam nor regulatory prosecutions, in a strict sense, since defendant's rights cannot be respected.' I will simply restate what I have said many times: I have never taken performance enhancing drugs.

Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to disappoint fans a few years later, if this is part of the process we have to go through to get the sport to the better place, obviously I'm here, I'm doing it.