Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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I'm suited to harsh conditions, I don't like racing in the heat.
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I have a strong, inspiring, and professional group of women around me with Boels-Dolmans. We race and train incredibly hard as a team.
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You've got all that 130 km. of being totally focused, and as soon as you cross the line, it takes a few seconds to realise what's happened.
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I mean, for me, the reason I ride my bike and race is because I love doing it, not because I'm seeking recognition for it.
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My focus has to be on my career.
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I will never cheat in any walk of life.
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The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.
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I won't try and combine training and a family.
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For the rest of my life, I realise people are going to ask questions of me, but at the end of the day, I am a clean athlete, and I have worked hard.
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I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.
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I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.
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It's difficult to change things in a positive way.
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The harder the race, the better.
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As a female athlete, I think it's really important to stand up on a podium and represent females and what we're capable of, and I always try to make political statements with what I do rather than with headlines.
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I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.
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I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.
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It's really important for cycling and for women to be on a sporting stage which is in the mainstream and across the board, not just my own sport.
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As a British rider, it's a privilege to be able to compete on home roads. The British public have really taken to cycling, and you can see that when the race goes through different towns: the community really gets behind it.
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I'm 100 per cent motivated. I haven't done enough yet in cycling to be satisfied.
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When you are on a climb, you always pick out people's words of encouragement, and it can push us on, without doubt.
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You can't expect a woman who's holding down a part-time job to train for the biggest race in the world. She has to have a minimum wage, and I think it's something that is pretty crazy that we don't have that.
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I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.
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As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. I don't feel the need to repeat titles or repeat victories; as soon as I get the one, then I'm happy.
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I feel really lucky. There wasn't a doubt in my mind when Phil asked me to marry him.