Posted on 07/29/2003 1:25:01 PM PDT by Akira
Edited on 07/29/2003 9:00:27 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
'I'll be honest with you,' Lance Armstrong said to me once, 'I don't wake up every morning thinking, 'I want to be an inspiration to somebody today.' '
The next time I see Lance, he'll probably be sitting on the porch of his favorite home, a one-room cabin overlooking his Austin ranch, wearing a t-shirt, jeans and flip-flops, and a two-day growth on his chin. He'll be drinking a Shiner Bock beer while he watches his kids roll down a hill of rich grass that he planted for that purpose, and I'll stare at him, and try to reconcile the regular guy I know with the heroic, iron-faced figure who's now won the Tour de France five times.
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