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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
I believe there are two periods in life, one for the bike, the other for becoming active on one's work.
I love skating so much and I feel like every time I step out onto the ice, that's what I'm meant to do.
There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
In order to be the best, you have to know your breaking point-go to the edge of it, but never go beyond.
Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
The sky was falling down on me and I spent most of the time drunk. It was the only way I could handle it.
one of the advantages of cycling is that it automatically prevents a journey from becoming an Expedition.
I was awarded 'Most Aggressive Rider of the Day', generally given to the most spectacular loser of the day.
I am nowhere near my limit. I just want to see if there are such things as limits. I want to go and find out.
I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
If you dream and you allow yourself to dream you can do anything. And that's what this Olympic medal represents.
Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.
With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport.
Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.
I do not believe there is any royal road to success as an athlete any more than there is to others in everyday life.
I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.
Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
Although, you know it's been really nice to wear the Olympic kit, I'm looking forward to wearing non-sports, feminine clothes.
I'll skate on concrete if I have to. I'm not worried about how fast the ice is. I'm worried about how fast I can go on the ice.
You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can’t take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike
Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.
The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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 shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.
My biggest fear isn't crashing this bike at 85mph and losing my skin - it's sitting in a chair at 90 and thinking 'I wish I'd done more'
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.
I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
When you see your male counterparts living a completely different lifestyle, I think it would be quite depressing! So no, it's not for me.
I listen to a variety of stuff on my iPod: Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Public Enemy, Foo Fighters, anything that gets my adrenalin flowing.
I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
There are positively no mental, physical or moral attainments too lofty for the Negro to accomplish if granted a fair and equal opportunity.
I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.
I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!
It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.
Everybody tells me that I never look as if I'm suffering. But, when I watch videotapes of a race, I always remember the pain I had to endure.
By now, we have learnt that game-changing ideas do not come from experts, they come from people who haven't got a clue and ask stupid questions.
I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash.