David Millar Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep. ~ David Millar

The last thing you want near you in a stressful situation is a stressed person. ~ David Millar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I sat there with everything - and I had nothing. ~ David Millar

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

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

I too had woven a kind of basket of a delicate texture, but I had not made it worth any one's while to buy them. Yet not the less, in my case, did I think it worth my while to weave them, and instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Do not complain. either to yourself or to others. What good does it do, except to highlight negativity and cause it? ~ David Cameron Gikandi

A renegotiated agreement is not a broken one. ~ David Allen

Money is just a means to an end. It shouldn't be the goal. ~ David Baldacci

The community in which one hears the voice of God structures how one hears that voice and interprets what it says. ~ David Novak

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me. ~ David Oyelowo

This is the real magic of fantasy fiction: it can feed souls and change lives. ~ David Gemmell

There is no doubt that people are in the long run what the government make out of them . . . ," Adams read in Rousseau. "The government ought to be what the people make it," he wrote in response. At ~ David McCullough

A New Campus: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ann Bowers. Steve Jobs, appearance before the Cupertino City Council, June 7, 2011. CHAPTER 41: ROUND THREE Family Ties: Interviews with Laurene Powell, Erin Jobs, Steve Jobs, Kathryn Smith, Jennifer Egan. Email from Steve Jobs, June 8, 2010, 4:55 p.m.; Tina Redse to Steve Jobs, July 20, 2010, and Feb. 6, 2011. President Obama: Interviews with David Axelrod, Steve Jobs, John Doerr, Laurene Powell, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Schmidt, Austan Goolsbee. Third Medical Leave, 2011: Interviews with Kathryn Smith, Steve Jobs, Larry Brilliant. Visitors: Interviews with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mike Slade. CHAPTER 42: LEGACY Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet - And How to Stop It (Yale, 2008), 2; Cory Doctorow, Why I Won't Buy an iPad, ~ Walter Isaacson

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it's hard to eat spaghetti. ~ David Allen

The summer, in some climates, makes possible to man a sort of Elysian life. Fuel, except to cook his Food, is then unnecessary; the sun is his fire, and many of the fruits are sufficiently cooked by its rays; while Food generally is more various, and more easily obtained, and Clothing and Shelter are wholly or half unnecessary. At the present day, and in this country, as I find by my own experience, a few implements, a knife, an axe, a spade, a wheelbarrow, etc., and for the studious, lamplight, stationery, and access to a few books, rank next to necessaries, and can all be obtained at a trifling cost. Yet some, not wise, go to the other side of the globe, to barbarous and unhealthy regions, and devote themselves to trade for ten or twenty years, in order that they may live - that is, keep comfortably warm - and die in New England at last. ~ Henry David Thoreau

One day I will
say
the gift I once had
has been taken,
the place I have
made for myself
belongs to another,
and the words I have sung
are being sung by the ones
I would want.

Then I will be ready
for that voice
and the still silence
in which it arrives.

And if my faith is good
then we'll meet again
on the road
and we'll be thirsty,
and stop
and laugh
and drink together again
from the deep well
of things as they are.

... ~ David Whyte

We just kind of relied on written scouting reports through the eighties and even the early nineties. I've really been amazed by some of the data that's out there, especially with regards to tendencies of hitters, and certainly tendencies of pitchers as well. I would have loved to have gotten that data when I played. ~ David Cone

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there. ~ David Bergen

Nicolas walked toward him. Ignoring the presence of the others nearby, he took Julien's chin in his hand and kissed him tenderly on the lips. Julien seemed chagrined at first, and then accepted the gesture. It was sweet, and had the air of a couple that had been together for a great long time.
Maric glanced away, embarrased by the intimacy, not to mention the fact that he hadn't quite realized the nature of the two warriors' relationship ealier. Not just comrades, then, and far more than close friend. The older Grey Wardens seemed unsurprised. ~ David Gaider

Nobody should be allowed to create general advertising until he has served his apprenticeship in direct-response ~ David Ogilvy

These are the times for which we were born. ~ David Spangler

In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power. ~ David Gerrold

It is curious that while good people go to great lengths to spare their children from suffering, few of them seem to notice that the one (and only) guaranteed way to prevent all the suffering of their children is not to bring those children into existence in the first place. ~ David Benatar

My goal is to make everybody skilled enough to be able to be their own doctor, their own nutritionist. Because all of us intrinsically have that inside of us. ~ David Wolfe

Also while I'd been away, the ship had sent a request on a postcard to the BBC's World Service, asking for 'Mr David Bowie's "Space Oddity" for the good ship Arbitrary and all who sail in her.' (This from a machine that could have swamped Earth's entire electro-magnetic spectrum with whatever the hell it wanted from somewhere beyond Betelgeuse.) It didn't get the request played. The ship thought this was hilarious. ~ Iain M. Banks

Netiquette Positive Word of The Day: Beautiful - Highly appealing to the senses and mind. NetworkEtiqeutte.net ~ David Chiles

I have picked the very, very best deputy that I could. David Parker is a fantastic guy. He's a person who I trust absolutely. He's got a wonderful sense for policy. He will be great on organisation, and I know that I could not have a better deputy. ~ David Cunliffe

Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner. ~ David Walton

When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss. ~ Henry David Thoreau

A button clicked beneath his finger and the noise stopped, leaving only the blinking red light. I was daydreaming, he thought, not willing to admit to himself he slept in earnest. He'd been back on Melis with his children, playing in the meadow where the river bent and foamed. ~ David Kristoph

Ha Jin writes: 'Some great men and women are fortified and redeemed through their suffering, and they even seek sadness instead of happiness, just as Van Gogh asserted, 'Sorrow is better than joy,' and Balzac declared, 'Suffering is one's teacher.' But these dicta are suitable only for extraordinary souls, for the select few. For ordinary people like us, too much suffering can only make us meaner, crazier, pettier, and more wretched ~ David Sheff

People rarely want to kill, David. It's not the basic makeup of the healthy human mind. In most situations they will go to great lengths to avoid killing. Remember that, and it will help you. ~ Brandon Sanderson

Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it? ~ David Gianadda

A goal is a dream taken seriously. ~ Henry David Thoreau

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ. ~ David Jeremiah

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom. ~ David Novak

Iraqi's minister of information did not show up for his press conference today. However, he claims he was there and he said it went very well. ~ David Letterman

Fuck you, Jack Ching," David Emerson swore. He found the keys were still in the ignition, and turned them. "Yeah. It's jackalope season, motherfucker. ~ Chad Huskins

It would probably strike the average politician as absurd to argue that the best way to fix the economy is to stop trying to 'fix it.' ~ David Harsanyi

The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion. ~ David Deida

At at any point in time, knowing what has to get done, and when, creates a terrain for maneuvering. ~ David Allen

Slander is poison to the soul. ~ David O. McKay