"I'm not happy if I'm not doing some physical suffering, like going out on a bike ride or running. First, it's good for you. No. 2, it sort of clears my mind on a daily basis. And it's a job. My job is to suffer. I make the suffering in training hard so that the races are not full of suffering."
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As quoted in "10 questions for Lance Armstrong" by Bill Saporito in TIME magazine (28 September 2003)
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