“The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“If you're not at the front, you're not in the race.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“I'd just killed some of the best riders in the world - and I was clean. I'd taken nothing - no EPO, no cortisone, no testosterone, no painkillers, no caffeine. I had justified to myself that I was a great rider without drugs - yet perversely given myself the green light to dope again. I'd proved what I could do clean - how much more could I do if I was doped?”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“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.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“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.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“Preparation was a term I was to hear more and more. It had another more sinister meaning. If you were prepared, it meant you were doped.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“If the riders, governing bodies, teams, race organisers and media weren't doing anything about it, then what the hell could I, a 20-year-old neo-pro from Scotland, do about it?”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“One group of riders doped, the others alongside them racing clean. You can work out for yourselves which group was fastest.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“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, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“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.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“Never before had I raced in an angry mood and I couldn't believe how powerful it was. Now I understood why Lance used anger so effectively and why he hated the people he had to beat at the tour.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“I’d never considered myself to be that ambitious or driven before, yet I stood there waiting for us to roll out through the start line knowing that taking part wasn’t enough. I wanted to be a racer, not just a finisher.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
“I didn't care about goals or expectations any more, I was just determined to race my heart out.”
― David Millar, quote from Racing Through the Dark
David Millar
Born place: in Mtarfa, Malta
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“I have pointed rhythmically at the ceiling to the two-four beat of the same disco music I hated pointing at the ceiling to in 1977.”
― David Foster Wallace, quote from A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
“No matter how much the inhabitants might try to hide it, there was a savagery about this island, a bloodlust and pride that bound every mother, father, and child in a clannish commitment to the hunt.”
― Nathaniel Philbrick, quote from In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
“The workers went along with the Nazis, the Church stood by and watched, the middle classes were too cowardly to do anything, and so were the leading intellectuals. We allowed the unions to be abolished, the various religious denominations to be suppressed, there was no freedom of speech in the press or on the radio. Finally we let ourselves be driven into war. We were content for Germany to do without democratic representation and put up with pseudo-representation by people with no real say in anything. Ideals can’t be betrayed with impunity, and now we must all take the consequences.”
― Władysław Szpilman, quote from The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
“Wherever you go, there you are.”
― Thomas à Kempis, quote from The Imitation of Christ
“Don't you see?" said Calla. "He wasn't coming to pay your debt. He was coming to see if you'd returned to pay it yourself." Lila felt her face go hot. "I do not know why you two are circling each other like stars. It is not my cosmic dance. But I do know that you come asking after one another, when only a few strides and a handful of stars divide you.”
― V.E. Schwab, quote from A Gathering of Shadows
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