I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

Victoria Pendleton

I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

Victoria Pendleton

If you start lifting weights, you will expect to put weight on, as muscle is heavier than fat. But you have to look more at your body shape - you will get heavier - but you might get smaller and heavier at the same time, which is fine. And it doesn't really matter what you weigh as long as you are happy with your shape and size!

Victoria Pendleton

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.

Victoria Pendleton

I've always been very fond of animals.

Victoria Pendleton

You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.

Victoria Pendleton

I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

Victoria Pendleton

To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

Victoria Pendleton

Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

Victoria Pendleton

My best hair care tip would be, choose a range that is right for your hair structure. Working with Pantene has made me realize the importance of this, and it really does make a difference. I have quite thick hair, so I use the Smooth & Sleek range.

Victoria Pendleton

I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

Victoria Pendleton

I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

Victoria Pendleton

Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

Victoria Pendleton

There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

Victoria Pendleton

I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.

Victoria Pendleton

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

Victoria Pendleton

As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

Victoria Pendleton

I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

Victoria Pendleton

As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.

Victoria Pendleton

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

Victoria Pendleton

Victoria Pendleton Quotes

I've been taught by some of the best strength and conditioning coaches in the country, and I've learnt that technique for weight training and cycling is very much more strength and less conditioning.

I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

I come from a cycling background. I happened to be good at it; the opportunities came my way. It wasn't something I necessarily searched to be involved in; it wasn't a dream. I just had an opportunity which you couldn't refuse.

I've always been very fond of animals.

I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.

My best hair care tip would be, choose a range that is right for your hair structure. Working with Pantene has made me realize the importance of this, and it really does make a difference. I have quite thick hair, so I use the Smooth & Sleek range.

I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.

I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.

There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.

I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.

You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.

As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.

I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.