I knew that people disliked me, and there always will be, but that's the price you pay for being in the limelight, so to speak.
From Tyler Hamilton
The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.
If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.
Whenever I was on the podium, it felt weird. I was obviously happy to have done well, but it wasn't truly happy from the bottom of my heart.
Once you start lying, you get kind of comfortable. You start believing it. Especially if you truly believe you didn't really cheat because you were doing what everybody else was doing.
Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.
Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.
I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.
If you weren't a risk-taker, you were always going to be a step behind. You could be the best cyclist in the world, but if you weren't a risk-taker, you weren't going to win the Tour de France.
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