Lance Armstrong - Its Not About The Bike

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Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things–whether health or a car or an old sense of self–has its own value in the scheme of life. Pain and loss are great enhancers.

Since retirement, Armstrong has focused his efforts on the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which provides support for people affected by cancer.

Lance Armstrong’s prominence and his work as a cancer survivor probably garnered more attention than it would have, if not for his participation.

My favorite quote from Lance Armstrong:

Pain is temporary, it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

This book is for everyone, all sports fans, and non sports fans, cancer and non-cancer patients, anyone who wants to know how it is like to overcome the odds.

“Pain is temporary, it may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever” - Lance Armstrong

Some of the other reviews are:
“Lance Armstrong does things in a big way. Other people write books about the long road back from cancer, or the physical and emotional trauma of infertility, or the experience of growing up without a father, or the determination it takes to win the most important bicycle race in the world. Armstrong lays claim to all of it, and the result is a pretty terrific book…Armstrong’s book is both inspiring and entertaining. He doesn’t whine, doesn’t sugarcoat the tough parts and doesn’t forget to thank the good people who helped him most along the way” – Rocky Mountain News

“A good, emotional, genuine story, eloquently woven by two master story-tellers: Mr. Armstrong, with his honesty and detail, and Ms. Jenkins, for the artists’ polish she paints on his narrative…The description of the brutal ride into the French town Sestriere ( a major tour hurdle) is as good a piece of sportswriting as you’ll find, and the perfect climax for a fast story…captivating.” – Cincinanati Enquirer.

“A disarming and spotless prose style, one far above par for sports memories.” – Publishers Weekly

“Absolutely Absorbing…Compelling.” – The Denver Post

“It’s about far more than just the bike” – San Antonio Express News

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