David Millar Quotes

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

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• Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised 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.

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• It seemed romantic but also tragic – people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself.

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

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• In fact cycling has always been ‘saved’ by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That’s the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.

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• I’ve been proud to be national champion. I’ve really enjoyed it. I have very little opportunity to remind people that I’m British and it’s a nice way of staying in touch. I’m going to defend it fiercely. I want to keep it.

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• I’ve been proud to be national champion.

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

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• I think if I get the training spot on, the equipment perfect and I’m in the right state of mind, I can get a result there from no competitive action.

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

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• 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.

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David Millar (25)

Birth:	4th January, 1977
Nationality:	Scottish
Profession:	Cyclist

About

David Millar was born in Mtarfa, Malta. He is a Scottish former professional road racing cyclist. He was the British national road champion and the national time trial champion, both in 2007. He is the only British rider to have worn all Tour de France jerseys and one of six to have worn the yellow jersey. He has won four stages of the Tour de France, five of the Vuelta a España and one stage of the Giro d'Italia.

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