David Millar - Personality

Personality

"David is anything but a complicated guy. In his spirit, he is very British, very cool. That sort of mentality is very rare in cycling. In fact, he's a very emotional boy, very angry (bileux), who gives himself a lot of worries for no reason. David always needs someone to reassure him. You always have to be behind him to comfort him."

Alain Deloeuil, Millar's directeur sportif at Cofidis in 2001

Millar is known for blunt comments, and he quit the Vuelta in 2002 to protest against the route and the course, which he considered dangerous. He had crashed several times and ripped off his race number and quit metres from the finish of the stage. William Fotheringham said Millar was always good for a piquant, "if often foul-mouthed", quote full of "F and C words". He described his dress sense as "artistic grunge-chic".

Millar observed, when speaking about other riders:

“	"They give off the image of exceptional men but in fact they are very, very ordinary. Simple people without much education, who aren't fun to eat with (pas très rigolos à table), who don't get into intellectual discussions. All they have in life is cycling. Without that, it's finished."	”
	— David Millar, 2007

The English author, Freya North, met Millar for her book Cat. She said he did not look like a cyclist, "more like a cross between a snowboarder and a member of a student indie rock group."