"The smallest issues can become the most important things in life and reality slips away."
- David Millar
"The past is as important as the future, but we only live in the here and now."
"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 g..."
"What an idiot I'd been. What a spoilt brat. What a bloody fool."
"It was very quiet at the hotel, as if there had been a death in the family. When you have quit the Tour, nobody really knows what to say or do. (...) Everything I'd previously achieved meant nothing; ..."
"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."
"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."
"I might have changed, but that did not mean the sport had."
"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."
"If you're not at the front, you're not in the race."