Chris Hoy Quotes

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Chris Hoy

Profession : Driver

Birth : March 23, 1976

For Le Mans, you still have to keep fit, it's endurance. It's a different type of fitness. You want to actually fit in the car - the seats are ridiculously small.

Chris Hoy

I certainly had no natural ability as a cyclist!

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Cycling taught me to recognize that mental health is on a sliding scale. Some days you are up and some days you are down.

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I'm a bit of a neat freak.

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To win like that, in Scottish kit, in the U.K., beating the Olympic champion, hearing Scotland the Brave on the podium, I was very emotional.

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I used to build ramps in my back garden. It was more about having a bit of fun than racing.

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If I smell a burger stand I get nervous. It takes me back to BMX tracks as a kid.

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I could always see as a kid that I was good at short sprints, running, throwing things far, jumping... anything that required a burst of power.

Chris Hoy

I used to row as a junior for Scotland but I was never massive, I was always tall and rangey.

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The Tour de France is a different kettle of fish to what I do, but it doesn't matter what you do - if you're on two wheels you do the best you can and do it clean.

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My predictable stable routine completely changed once I retired. I went from a regimented and vigorous daily training program to a routine where every day was different.

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As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

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I might only have half an hour when I get home after a long day, and the last thing I want to do is exercise. But you feel if you don't do that, tomorrow you're going to miss it again.

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I've said numerous times how proud I am to be Scottish and how proud I have been to compete for Britain, too, and I don't think these two things necessarily have to be mutually exclusive.

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The biggest thing I noticed growing up when I was doing BMX racing or playing rugby through to secondary school level, was seeing the parents who were so desperate to see their kids do well that they were almost living their lives through their kids and putting huge pressure on them to the point they weren't enjoying it.

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As a former track cyclist I know only too well the risk of crashing. You don't dwell on it when you are competing but there are lots of moments when you are close to serious accidents.

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I'm lucky not to have suffered any severe problems with my mental health but there have been lows, like when Callum was born prematurely and had to spend so much time in hospital.

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My advice is before a big ride, eat a meal 2 hours or so before, to allow you to digest and process it, and without being crude, try to get to the toilet before.

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I've been to Florida, Texas and California in the States, but New York is the place I really want to visit.

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Focusing on the long-term goal can be disheartening when you're so far away from it, so it's vital to have ongoing targets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.

Chris Hoy