Quotes by David Millar - Page 1

I've been proud to be national champion.
David Millar / Cyclist
Champion
Proud
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I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.
David Millar / Cyclist
Sat
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If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.
David Millar / Cyclist
Fronts
Ifs
Race
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I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.
David Millar / Cyclist
Sports
Mean
Might
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I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.
David Millar / Cyclist
Accumulation
Done
Good And Bad
Accumulate
Good Done Bad
Every Single Thing
Good Bad Done
Single Thing
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The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.
David Millar / Cyclist
Battle
Sometimes
Victory
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The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
David Millar / Cyclist
Car
Bike
First Time
Firsts
Five
Four
Time First Time Back
Crashed
Car Time First Time
Rode
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Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?
David Millar / Cyclist
Men And Women
Normal
Women Men Sports
Punished
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I like my hands. Which is lucky as I have to spend all day looking at them on the handlebars.
David Millar / Cyclist
Hands
Lucky
All Day
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I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.
David Millar / Cyclist
Cycling
Dapper
Thinking
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In Italy it's full-on stardom when you're a cyclist - eating in restaurants for free, it's great.
David Millar / Cyclist
Cyclists
Eating
Restaurants
Stardom
Cyclist
Full-On
Italy
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There will always be cheaters. It is human nature. It will never be 100 percent clean, in any sport.
David Millar / Cyclist
Sports
Athlete
Cheater
Clean
Human Nature
Percent
Cheaters
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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Drunk
Fall
Handle
Sky
Falling
Spent
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I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
David Millar / Cyclist
Given
Loser
Riders
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Sports
Awful
Survival
Background
Sport
Main
Objective
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Aesthetic
Bike
Class
Cycling
Technique
Way
Carry
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
December
First Time
Fronts
Lazy
Legs
Team
Twice
Photo
Shave
Twice A Week
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Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash.
David Millar / Cyclist
Sports
Stupid
Thinking
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Action
Equipment
Training
Competitive
Spot
Result
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Clean
Done
Firsts
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Opportunity
Chance
Forgiven
Given
Human Beings
Mistake
Second Chance
Should
Thinking
Chance Opportunity People
Mistakes
Beings
Human
Punished
Second
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Sports
Benefits
Economic
Ethical
Outlook
Team
Three
Two
Three Who Two
Turning
Economic Benefits
Sport
Opened
Teams
Turning Point
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Clean
Cycling
Funding
Honest
Risk
Simple
Sponsors
Team
Brutally
Otherwise
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Don't Give Up
Giving Up
Hurt
Mountain
Physically
Hurting
Suffer
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Clean
Cycling
Harsh
Judicial
Saved
Controls
Sport
In Fact
Investigations
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Cycling
Hate
Lying
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Bother
Cycling
Epiphany
Hate
Realised
Living
Blamed
Came
Cell
Lie
Lose
Slightest
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But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.
David Millar / Cyclist
Cheat
Cheater
Glory
Human Nature
Inevitable
Involved
People
Way
Cheaters
Dictates
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I'll go [racing] until my body won't let me any more. Someone said to me: "The day you stop, you won't be able to get back on the same way as when you did as a pro." I want to delay that kiss goodbye as long as possible.
David Millar / Cyclist
Goodbye
Kissing
Long
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Opportunity
British
Enjoyed
Nice
People
Proud
Staying
Touch
Defend
Fiercely
National
Nice Way
Remind
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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.
David Millar / Cyclist
Romantic
Achievement
Bones
Break
Crash
Fighting
People
Tragic
Winning
Bikes
Fight
Finish
Seemed
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Everything that's going on within the peloton - there's about ten different races going on. There is also a survival element to it - I love the fact that it's so epic. You crash on a bike, the first thing you do is try and get back up on it. No whinging!
David Millar / Cyclist
Bike
Crash
Epic
Survival
Ten
Within
Back Up
Element
Fact
First Thing
Races
The First Thing
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