David Millar Quotes

There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings.

I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.

Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.

I had grown used to getting a pat on the back and being told after a good result: 'Well done, David - you should be happy, you're the first clean rider.

In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.

My epiphany came in that police cell: I realized I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.

I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.

I've been proud to be national champion.

Now there are two or three teams who are very ethical in their outlook who have opened up the economic benefits and that is probably going to be a turning point in the sport.

The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.

To be brutally honest, it's simple economics. If they want to come into cycling, sponsors need to know the team they are funding is clean, otherwise the risk is just too great.

One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.

It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.

I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.

I didn't want to take it. I knew it was a powerful drug, but I also knew it was a catabolic drug that consumed the body.

Nothing was being done to help the non-dopers, to encourage or support them. Even the clean riders like myself and Moncout knew how easy it was to cheat the tests.

This place has been my home. They liked me here. Not any more. Now they will look the other way. Now I don't belong.

What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.

The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.

The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.