Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'
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On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.
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I feel like I was born to ride the track.
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My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.
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My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
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If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.
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I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.
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Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.
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One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.
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It's really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.
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When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.
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I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.
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I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.
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You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.
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That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.
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I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.
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I've always said the Olympics are special to me.
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Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.
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Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.
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When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it's like being a British Olympic legend, it's a bit much to take in.
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The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.
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When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.
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You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.
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That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.