Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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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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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 don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.
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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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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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I feel like I was born to ride the track.
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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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I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.
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I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.
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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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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 just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.
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I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.
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Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.
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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 began cycling round the Serpentine because it was the only closed route in London where I could ride traffic-free.
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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 can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.
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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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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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If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.
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I've always said the Olympics are special to me.