Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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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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Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.
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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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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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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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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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I always compare myself to the best.
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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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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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Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.
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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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Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
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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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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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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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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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People think sport is life and death - it's not.
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I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.
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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.