Lizzie Armitstead Quotes
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I never expected to compete at home in a UCI women's race - let alone as world champion.
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I'm quite a strong person, and I've become even stronger.
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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 will never cheat in any walk of life.
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I can only tell you that I am a clean athlete and an honest person.
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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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My focus has to be on my career.
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The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.
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It's not always about gold medals, I think. It has to be about development, and we are missing that in U.K. at the moment.
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I don't look at my emails on the weekend or after 6 o'clock in the day.
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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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I don't particularly buy into all the nutrition fads and that sort of thing.
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When I have children, it will be my choice, and I won't feel under any pressure.
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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 won't try and combine training and a family.
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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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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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I feel really lucky. There wasn't a doubt in my mind when Phil asked me to marry him.
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There's been a lot of champions before me, and I'm sure there will be ahead of me.
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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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I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.
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Most women's races don't pay much at all.