Quotes by Bradley Wiggins - Page 2

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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Britain
Legacy
Olympics
Incentive
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Athlete
Time Me Feel
Climber
Trial
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Bike
Racing
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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 / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Efforts
Punishing
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It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
House
Nice
Tvs
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Legend
Journalists
Olympic
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Christmas
Christmas Day
Miles
Priorities
Riding
Life Change Your
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If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Heritage
Nine
Years
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Better Always Me
Everybody Else
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Armstrong
Cycling
France
Winner
Afterwards
Hating
Lance Armstrong
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Track
Park
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Carbon
Weather
Wet
Wheels
Bikes
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Two Weeks
Visiting
Father Day Every Day
Hospital
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Consuming
Insight
Documenting
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Vintage
Cherished
Gibson
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Athens
Gold
Pregnant
Pride
Ours
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Dominating
New Challenges
Track
Event
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Warm
Time Done Anything
Clothing
Raining
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Athlete
Cycling
Time Way More
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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 / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Coins
Milk
Olympics
Scraping
Barrel
Overnight
Pint
Pound
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Eccentric
Separation
Always Me More
Extreme
Everybody Else
Me Always More
Just Be
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Aspect
Cycling
All Year
External
Perceptions
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Gold
Medal
Olympic Games
Good End Of The Day Day
Good Better Your
End Of The Day
Gold Medal
Olympic
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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 / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Granted
Remember
Did
Chair
Every Day
First Place
Walk
Place
Start
Suddenly
Take For Granted
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Judgement
Pace
Ride
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Fitness
Distance
Fatigue
Different Kind
Proper
Test
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Aspect
Dedicated
Granted
Life My Life Feel
Fits
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Gold
Not Interested
Olympic
Olympic Gold
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Jersey
Richmond
Riding
Sky
Life Love World
Cycle
World Stage
Masses
Park
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Adviser
Following
Guidance
Investment
Regard
Relief
Advisor
Claimed
Concerns
Scheme
Immediate
Instructed
Tax Relief
Twofold
Withdraw
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Honour
Olympic Games
Eyes World Me
Chris
Drives
Mentioned
Olympic
Sir
Steve
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Answers
Conferences
Justify
Negative
Ninety
Provocative
Across
Yourself Day Every Day
Asked
Board
Cent
Per
Press
Topic
Tour
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Drank
Enjoyed
Paper
Reading
Riding
Sitting
Bar
Rider
Stems
Sums
Trained
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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.
Bradley Wiggins / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
All Time
Favourite
Guitarist
Best World Way
Bass Player
The Who
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