Quotes by Mark Cavendish - Page 2

Everybody who rides a motorbike thinks they can ride MotoGP. Anybody who does a Gran Fondo thinks they can do pro cycling. Anyone who drives a Corsa thinks they can do Formula 1.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Cycling
Motorbike
Drives
Formula
Pro
Rides
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Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your chances of a mistake if you do everything right.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Armstrong
Mistake
Puncture
Racing
Seven
Days
Tours
Chances
Won
Lance Armstrong
Mechanical
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When I was younger, I didn't really train for the sprint - I trained to get over the mountains. I have to train it now I'm getting older. But the sprint is more born, rather than made.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Getting Older
Sprint
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One thing I do get aggravated by is people shouting with frustration if they get pushed and shoved in sprints. I don't push and shove anyone, but I don't care if somebody does it to me.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Aggravated
Don't Care
Frustration
Shouting
Me Care People
Push
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It's incredible the muscle damage you do in a sprint. You don't see it after the line, because we're smiling. But if you see the tent that we're in straight afterwards, you just collapse.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Collapse
Damage
Sprint
Muscle
Afterwards
Line
Smiling
Tent
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You can only pre-plan stuff to a certain degree because there are so many variables - road conditions, weather conditions, mechanicals... You have an idea of whose wheel you want to be on.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Conditions
Variables
Weather
Certain Degree
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If you're winning bike races ahead of guys who're older than you then they're going to get upset. When some young guy appears from nowhere, some people who are slower assume they ride dangerously.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Bike
Upset
Assume
Nowhere
Dangerously
Races
Slower
Young Guy
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I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn’t matter whether it’s raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I’m riding a bike I know I’m the luckiest guy in the world.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Cycling
Rain
Riding Your Bike
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You can believe or you can doubt yourself. It's the difference between a gap being one metre late that you're gonna launch, then it's three seconds and you're sat on the wheel and you're about to lose.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Sat
Seconds
Gap
Launch
Wheel
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Since we married, Peta's taken over a lot of my cooking and she's incredible. She'll do different meals for me and the kids, depending on my regime. If I name 10 ingredients she'll change the recipe every day.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Cooking
Ingredients
Married
Meals
Taken
Change Me Day
Depending
Recipe
Regime
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A lot of people in the Isle of Man support me and it makes it all worthwhile when people are interested in what you're doing. I dunno if the word 'famous' is appropriate, but I'm quite well known on the Isle of Man.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Appropriate
Isle
Well Known
Worthwhile
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If you're on the top for 10 years it's going to seem like you have more crashes that someone on the top for three years. If you don't win as much in your ninth or 10th year it's going seem like you are on your way out.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Crashes
Ninth
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I used to walk down a street and nobody would notice me. Now, I get stopped all the time; people saying, 'well done'. It makes me really, really proud to have done my bit to help make cycling a little bit more popular.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Cycling
Little Bit
Proud
Well Done
Time Walk Me
Time Me Street
Bit
Nobody
Street
Walk
Notice
Popular
Saying
Time People
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Sometimes the hardest part of the stage is right at the beginning. The other teams will leave it to us to chase down a breakaway, and we can't allow a big group to go up the road - anything more than four riders is trouble.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Riders
Chase
Hardest Part
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Crashes are the worst thing because your wounds stick to you, so you are sweating into your road rash all day and when you try to sleep your wounds are sticking to the bed sheets. It is part of the job and we know the risks.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Bed
Sheets
Sweating
Worst
All Day
Crashes
Rash
Stick
Worst Thing
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People's brains work differently. The brain is like a muscle and you have to train it, keep it active, keep active in races. I notice if I haven't raced for a while. It's hard to see things clearly so you have to relearn that.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Muscle
Work Brain People
Brains
Notice
Races
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I don't know why, but despite winning how many world championships, how many Tour stages, and being 31 years old, some people still thought I had to prove myself, you know. So I had to do the Track Worlds to try to prove myself.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Myself World People
Championships
Stages
Worlds
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Track and road cycling are very different things. It is easy to look at them both as cycling but going from the road to the track is like asking Andy Murray to play squash: yes, it's a racket sport like tennis, but it's not the same.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Cycling
Racket
Squash
Andy
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I want to provide the best possible life for my daughter. I want her to be so proud of me. You know, I never rode just for myself. I did it for my team as well. But this feels different. This feels like I'm riding my heart out for her.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Riding
Life Best Myself
Rode
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Training-wise, I don't have an extreme plan I stick to. I know what I have to do, I know the goal. But it's not really structured. That's the beauty of road cycling. It all depends on the conditions on the day and where you are in the world.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Conditions
Cycling
Structured
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I think an Olympic medal is the only thing missing from what I can physically achieve as a cyclist. I can't win the Tour de France, but I've pretty much won everything else that I can within my physical realm, so that's the only thing missing.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Medal
Missing
Cyclist
Everything Else
Olympic
Olympic Medal
Realm
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I'm a fan of motorsport and a fan of McLaren and I was lucky to work with the company on a small scale across my career but to be able to race now with that brand on my jersey, it's pretty special. I still have to rein in my fanboy attitude sometimes.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Jersey
Scale
Rein
Small Scale
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The perception is that I've always made winning look easy. People think it's easy, but they don't see what's behind it, the time away from the family. The days spent climbing, training out in all weather, climbing but trying to keep the speed for the sprint.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Perception
Speed
Sprint
Weather
Family Time Look
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I started getting into decent food after I got a house in Tuscany, near the British cycling academy's training base. For a cyclist, the area is incredible, with the flats of the basin of Florence, the heights of the Apennines and the small climbs around Chianti.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Academy
Climbs
Cycling
Decent
Flats
Florence
Heights
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If somebody had told me as a kid that I would win 30 stages of the Tour de France I probably wouldn't have imagined it. I probably imagined I could do it - I don't lack confidence - but at the end of the day one Tour de France stage win can make a rider's career.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
End Of The Day Me Day
Day One
Rider
Stages
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The Giro's difficult to predict for the points jersey because there are so many mountain-top finishes and there are as many points on offer for mountain stages as for sprints. It's really for the most consistent all-round rider and it's pretty difficult for me to win it.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Jersey
Mountain
Predict
Finishes
Rider
Stages
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I'm fortunate in one way and I can take pride from the fact that I've consistently performed for 10 years, which is something that not many people can do. I've consistently stayed near the top for 10 years which is maybe something that is overlooked and taken for granted.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Consistently
Fortunate
Granted
Overlooked
Pride
Taken
Taken For Granted
Fact
People Way I Can
Maybe
Near
Performed
Stayed
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If you want a lot of endorsements then you'd pick the Olympics. But I've had a passion for the Tour since I was a kid. Let's put it this way: it would be harder to win a stage on the Tour de France so that would mean more. I'd take the Tour win first - but I'm aiming for both.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Olympics
Aiming
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It's been reported a lot that I've had two bouts of mononucleosis. The evidence suggests it wasn't two bouts, it was the same bout. I never got over it the first time. That's hard to explain to people. It makes it look like I'm not very resilient, whereas it was completely mismanaged.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Over It
Resilient
Time Look People
Reported
Whereas
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Between 20km and 10km to go, you want the whole team at the front. You don't necessarily want to take control, and the speed will be dictated by how many surges you get from the other teams. You don't want to go so fast they can't come, but you want to be just ahead so you're in control.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Speed
Dictated
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I like to have plans in place so I know what I am doing and when. Take nutrition. When I am on the bike I will start off eating solid food like rice cakes made with pistachios or energy bars. Then as the race goes on, halfway though I will switch to gels as they get into your system more quickly and they are easier to palate when you're tired.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Bars
Bike
Halfway
Nutrition
Palate
Plans
Rice
Cakes
Solid
Switch
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The other sprinters are big and powerful but I have different strengths. The first thing is my leg speed. Most guys sprint at 120 revolutions per minute but I sprint at 130-140: think of it like a smaller engine revving faster. My body is shorter too, so I can lean over the handlebars for a more aerodynamic profile: again, think a smaller engine but in an F1 car.
Mark Cavendish / Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Faster
Profile
Speed
Sprint
Revolutions
Engine
First Thing
Lean
Leg
Smaller
Strengths
The First Thing
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