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Bradley Wiggins [1980-0] British

Rank: 101
Athlete, Professional Road Racing Cyclist

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for the UCI Continental team WIGGINS.

Attitude, Christmas, Computers, Fitness

Quote	Tags	Rank
The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.		101
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.		102
I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.		103
The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.		104
Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had 'Time Out' on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.		105
I began cycling round the Serpentine because it was the only closed route in London where I could ride traffic-free.		106
You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.		107
I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.		108
I feel like I was born to ride the track.		109
My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.		110
That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.		111
I'm not just a time triallist any more.		112
I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.		113
I feel a different person in a lot of ways. I feel much more professional and dedicated to my trade than I used to be. I appreciate this ability I've got - and don't take it for granted any more. That fits every aspect of my life now.		114
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.		115
Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.		116
You train all year for the physical aspect of cycling, but you can't plan for what comes next. You're still the same person. External perceptions might change, but inside, you're the same.		117
Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.		118
You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.		119
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?'		120
I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.		121
When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.		122
You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.		123
I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.		124
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.	Computers	125
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.		126
One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.		201
I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.		202
I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.		203
It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.		204
I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.		205
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.		206
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.		207
If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.		208
I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.		209
Not having my father around has made me a better person.		210
If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.		211
I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.		212
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.		213
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.	Christmas	214
Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.		215
Sir Wiggo sounds nice.		216
It's really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.		217
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.		218
I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.		219
Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.		220
In sport, you just have to take what you can get.		221
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.	Fitness	222
I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.		223
You speak to the press at the Tour every day, but most often in a negative sense. Ninety per cent of the questions you are asked in the post-race press conferences are challenging or provocative, so you have to justify yourself; you have to try to give the right answers about every topic across the board.		224
On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.		225
I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'		226
When you're in the heat of the moment, you need guys you can trust and who have been there for you.		301
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.		302
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.		303
When you are suddenly standing in front of a bunch of journalists being asked what it's like being a British Olympic legend, it's a bit much to take in.		304
I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.		305
People think sport is life and death - it's not.		306
Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.		307
I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.		308
I certainly don't hope to live forever, but on the other hand, I'm not reckless.		309
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.		310
How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.		311
Doing 40-minute track sessions is easy money compared to what we were doing on the Tour. What you used to think was hard now feels like a walk in the park.		312
I can train harder and put myself through more punishing efforts now than I used to do, having done the Tour de France, and come off the road now.		313
I always compare myself to the best.		314
When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.		315
A lot of the bikes are carbon wheels now, and you don't have as good a braking surface on a carbon wheel in the wet weather as you do on the old aluminium rims.		316
I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.		317
They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.		318
If you didn't go out every time it was raining, you wouldn't get anything done. So it's a case of making the right clothing choice in terms of waterproof, breathable, warm clothing.		319
I've been in a lot of pressure situations; I know what I can do.		320
My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.		321
I wanted to put a really good kids' racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.		322
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.		323
I've always said the Olympics are special to me.		324
Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.		325
People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'		326
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.		401
I drank because I enjoyed it. I was happy sitting at the end of the bar on my own, reading the paper. I've always enjoyed my own company, and that stems from riding alone. I never trained with anyone - and I still don't. I've always been happy with my own thoughts, and that sums me up as an individual-pursuit rider.		402
Success is easy to take for granted.		403
That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.		404
I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.		405
I ended up in Hampstead for two weeks after the Tour, visiting a hospital every day before my granddad died. But he was more than my granddad. He was like my father.		406
The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.		407
I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.		408
You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.		409
People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.		410
Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.		411
My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?	Attitude	412
In my eyes, I will never be up there with the Sir Steve Redgraves and the Sir Chris Hoys of this world. It's not something that drives me; I just enjoy going to the Olympic Games. Just to be mentioned in the same breath as those people is an honour for me. I don't ever think about those kind of things.		413
It's an Olympic Games, at the end of the day, and to represent your country at the Olympics is about as good as it gets. Put a gold medal on top of that, and it doesn't ever get any better.		414
It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.		415

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