Bradley Wiggins Quotes

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Bradley Wiggins

Profession : Athlete

Birth : April 28, 1980

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?'

Bradley Wiggins

Sir Wiggo sounds nice.

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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.

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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.

Bradley Wiggins

How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.

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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.

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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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Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.

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I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'

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It's really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.

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Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.

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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.

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If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.

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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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You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.

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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.

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When you're in the heat of the moment, you need guys you can trust and who have been there for you.

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My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

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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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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.

Bradley Wiggins