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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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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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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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 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 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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Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
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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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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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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'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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I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.
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I was a bit of a loner at school because I was into what I was into, that sort of scene; that is where the whole mod thing started, when I was 14-15.
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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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Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.
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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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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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People think sport is life and death - it's not.
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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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How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.
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I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.