My teammates wanted me to win the Tour, but to be honest with you, in my mind, I didn't believe I could do it. I told them I would win, because that's what they wanted to hear. But I never believed it. Throughout this multi-city media tour, despite answering the same 10 questions thousands, no millions, of times, Armstrong never seems to exhale in frustration or roll his eyes or snap. He knows all this attention from the American press and public is not really due to a newfound affection for the sport of cycling.
Kid beats cancer.
Kid wins Tour de France. Armstrong is not at all snide when he says this. In fact, he seems serenely grateful. After all, almost every time his face is on television or his name is in the paper, the calls start pouring in to the Austin-based Lance Armstrong Foundation, which provides funding and support to cancer patients and survivors. But even when Armstrong kicked off his big homecoming party last month, it was he who put his disease front and center.