Sir Wiggo sounds nice.

Cycling has given me everything.

I always compare myself to the best.

Success is easy to take for granted.

I feel like I was born to ride the track.

I've always said the Olympics are special to me.

People think sport is life and death - it's not.

Tom Simpson is like the Bobby Moore of British cycling.

Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.

Not having my father around has made me a better person.

Working-class people don't tend to be wooed by celebrity.

If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.

People come up to me in the street and use words like 'legend.'

It's really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

I can get obsessive with my training, but it makes you who you are.

How does Ronnie O'Sullivan play snooker the way he does? You can't explain it.

I certainly don't hope to live forever, but on the other hand, I'm not reckless.

Early Nineties - that was what it was all about: how people dressed on the terraces.

I don't make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.

I'm not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.

People always push the boundaries, especially when the rewards are so high financially.

I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.

They do say now in cycling that there's no such thing as bad weather - it's bad clothing.

I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.

The Tour has changed, and I can't make up my mind if it's changed for the better or worse.

Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it's very accessible.

I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

I came to the conclusion that I'm not going to give up cycling because some people are cheating.

Part of me worries about upsetting people, because we all have perceptions about Olympic champions.

When you're in the heat of the moment, you need guys you can trust and who have been there for you.

That's the great thing about the Tour. There's always next year and the chance to rectify everything.

My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.

I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.

It's difficult, and it's an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

My mum put herself in £50,000 of debt to service my sporting career. She did everything for me to pursue my dream.

I began cycling round the Serpentine because it was the only closed route in London where I could ride traffic-free.

Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had 'Time Out' on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.

On the Tour, you live in a bubble - your team, the other riders, the press - so you don't know how it looks from outside.

I've got an opportunity that not many people have - to be the leader of Team Sky as I enter the prime years of my career.

I was born in Belgium, but we moved to Kilburn when I was one, so 'Time Out' has always been in the background of my life.

I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.

It's still the height of every four years for me, regardless of Tours de France and everything: it's all about the Olympics.

Everything I achieve affects my family as well, and suddenly, my kids' dad became the most famous man in the country for a couple of weeks.

It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.

I've always shied away from computers, the Internet and all that. I'm a bit more traditional, really - pick up a newspaper, pick up a phone.

You have got Team Sky leading the way on a professional front. They are quite open and have done everything possible on an anti-doping level.

I said at the start of the race that the Tour is about being good for 21 days, being consistent every day, not having super days and bad days.

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