Tyler Hamilton is a well-known American former professional road bicycle racer and the only American rider to have won one of cycling’s five Monuments. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2000 and 2004, winning a gold medal in the individual time trial in 2004.
In addition, he won the national road race championship in 2008. Hamilton was born on March 1, 1971, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, in the United States. He is also a published author, with titles such as The Secrets Race: Inside the Hidden World of the Tour de France: Doping and many others. In terms of schooling, he attended the University of Colorado Boulder and Holderness School.
Let’s get to his top 19 motivational remarks.
- “I’m never satisfied. I always want to achieve more.”― 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
- “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
- “They’ve pushed me down a big ravine, but I’ll get back up to the top.”― 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
- “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
- “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 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
- “The truth always finds it’s way out, even years and years and years later. The truth always prevails.”― 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
- “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
- “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
- “Once in a great while I miss the racing, the feeling of winning. That rush. That adrenaline.”― Tyler Hamilton
- “Once in a while, when I was younger, I’d lie, then tell the truth, and I’d feel better.”― 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
- “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
- “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
