Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.
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I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.
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I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.
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I've been in a lot of pressure situations; I know what I can do.
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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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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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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 take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'
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That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.
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Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.
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How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
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I've got an opportunity that not many people have - to be the leader of Team Sky as I enter the prime years of my career.
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It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.
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Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.
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Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
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I always compare myself to the best.
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I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.
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I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.
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When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.
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People think sport is life and death - it's not.
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I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.
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I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.
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Cycling is a part of my life; it always has been, and I will always continue to cycle. I won't be doing it on the world stage, doing it competitively, but I'll still be out on the weekend with the masses riding around Richmond Park in my Team Sky jersey or whatever. I just love it.
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It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.