Lance Armstrong Quotes

In school, I always had to work harder than others.

Nobody ever gave me anything. Everything I got I had to work for.

I don't think I'm the face of the city or the Houston Astros. I'm just another guy who is playing hard to make dreams come true.

I want to work for what I have. If feel if you work for what you have instead of it being just given to you, people respect you a lot more because you understand what it takes, you've been there and done it. No one can just say it was easy because you took it. You didn't just get it. You took it.

I'm just a regular guy who had talent and the wherewithal to be able to hone that into something I can make money doing.

The medal just was an object, just a medal, and that's it. What really meant something was the blood, the sweat, the tears that went into getting that medal. I'll always have the memories of that with me.

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

Life isn't just to be found, you have to work for it.

My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.

There is a direct relationship between joy and effort. The joy of success is in ratio to the amount of effort expended to achieve it

I knew I was as good as anybody. That's not really bragging; it's just that I'd put the time in.

If I am anything, which I highly doubt, I have made myself so by hard work.

Effort is grossly underrated.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

I think it's great in any job to be doing well and doing it the best that you can, so that's pretty great. But I wouldn't call myself a celebrity in any way. I'm just doing my job.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

It's easy to dream about it ... Much harder to execute it ....Work!

Success is a very difficult thing. It's much more difficult than one might think.

There is no gain without struggle.

There is no happiness that isn't earned

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

O Lord, thou givest us everything, at the price of an effort.

Racing comes easily to me, especially the 100 metres. That is why, no matter how fast I run the run the 100 metres, the 200 will always mean more to me, because of the effort I've put in.

You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback.

Your dreams are ballbusters; they're not the yellow brick road.