Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Tyler Hamilton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Tyler Hamilton.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Tyler Hamilton is an American former professional road bicycle racer. He is the only American rider to win one of the five Monuments of cycling, taking Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2003. Hamilton became a professional cyclist in 1995 with the US Postal Service cycling team. He was a teammate of Lance Armstrong during the 1999, 2000 and 2001 Tours de France, where Armstrong won the general classification. He was a key asset for Armstrong, being a very good climber as well as time-trialist. Hamilton appeared at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics. In 2004, he won a gold medal at the individual time trial. The first doping test after his Olympic victory gave a positive result, but because the backup sample was frozen, no doping offence could be proven. After he failed further doping tests at the 2004 Vuelta a España, Hamilton was suspended for two years from the sport.

American - Athlete | Born: March 1, 1971

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You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

Tyler Hamilton

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Tyler Hamilton

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.

Tyler Hamilton

I'd never really experienced the West before moving to Colorado. The East Coast, where I grew up, has a lot of big cities, like Boston and New York, and is more densely populated, and I instantly fell in love with the big open spaces of the West, where you can see not just for a few miles but for a few hundred miles.

Tyler Hamilton

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.

Tyler Hamilton

If you look at my career, I kind of got progressively better and better and better. I came closer to the top.

Tyler Hamilton

The truth always finds it's way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.

Tyler Hamilton

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better.

Tyler Hamilton

If you do have a team where every rider has a huge list of results, that means everybody wants to do the race for themselves. The strongest team in the Tour is not the strongest team on paper.

Tyler Hamilton

Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.

Tyler Hamilton

I'm never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.

Tyler Hamilton

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.

Tyler Hamilton

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski team, and in my opinion, it's the best place for skiing - you have this super-light, fluffy champagne snow.

Tyler Hamilton

For me, having the opportunity to go to college was very important. To miss out on an education is a loss.

Tyler Hamilton

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.

Tyler Hamilton

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.

Tyler Hamilton

Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.

Tyler Hamilton

Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.

Tyler Hamilton

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.

Tyler Hamilton

Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Tyler Hamilton

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