Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.
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Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.
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The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
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I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.
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You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.
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It's an Olympic Games, at the end of the day, and to represent your country at the Olympics is about as good as it gets. Put a gold medal on top of that, and it doesn't ever get any better.
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I certainly don't hope to live forever, but on the other hand, I'm not reckless.
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I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.
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I ended up in Hampstead for two weeks after the Tour, visiting a hospital every day before my granddad died. But he was more than my granddad. He was like my father.
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I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.
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In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It's not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don't ever think about those kind of things.
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If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.
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I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.
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The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.
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People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'
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I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.
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Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had 'Time Out' on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.
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Doing 40-minute track sessions is easy money compared to what we were doing on the Tour. What you used to think was hard now feels like a walk in the park.
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My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?
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A lot of the bikes are carbon wheels now, and you don't have as good a braking surface on a carbon wheel in the wet weather as you do on the old aluminium rims.
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They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.
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Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.
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You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.
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I drank because I enjoyed it. I was happy sitting at the end of the bar on my own, reading the paper. I've always enjoyed my own company, and that stems from riding alone. I never trained with anyone - and I still don't. I've always been happy with my own thoughts, and that sums me up as an individual-pursuit rider.