Bradley Wiggins Quotes
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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 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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I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.
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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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Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.
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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 wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.
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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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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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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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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 was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.
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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 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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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'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.
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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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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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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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The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.
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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.
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Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.