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Racing Through the Dark

Book by David Millar · 9 quotes · Doping, Inspirational, Sports

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“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.”

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“It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.”

Winning Race Victory Drugs

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“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.”

Sports Support Encouragement Betrayal Purity Doping

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“I was not a doper, I told myself - I just injected myself to recover and needed pills to sleep.”

Pain Sport Doping David Millar Racing Through The Dark

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“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?”

Inspirational Self Pain Success Drugs Doping

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“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.”

Inspirational Life Lessons Doping

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“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?”

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

Sports Humour Doping

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“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; all I was now was a pro rider who couldn't finish the Tour de France.”

Life Inspirational Success Death Sports Failure Racing Achievements Doping

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