“One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a secret phone and a hole in my arm and I'm bleeding all over, hoping I don't… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Dr. Ashenden, in the wake of the confessions of Hamilton, Landis, and others, had gradually come to understand doping from the bike racer’s point of view. “Before, I saw them as weak people, bad people,” he said. “Now I see… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Here’s what I was learning: secrets are poison. They suck the life out of you, they steal your ability to live in the present,… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“a faster cadence put less stress on the muscles, transferring the load from the physical (the muscle fibers) to a better place: the cardiovascular… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“You can tell a rider's fitness by the shape of his ass and the veins in his legs.” — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“One day I'm a normal person with a normal life,” he said. “The next I'm standing on a street corner in Madrid with a… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“losing weight was the hardest but most efficient way to increase the crucial watts per kilogram number,” — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“truth is a living thing. It has a force inside it, an inner springiness. The truth can’t be denied or locked away, because when… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better. — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
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… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
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… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
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 Copy Share
“Then there’s the superstition about spilling salt. One night midway through the Tour of Italy, my CSC teammate Michael Sandstød decided to risk breaking… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share
