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The Tour de France is ridiculously hard.
Second doesn't mean anything in cycling.
Yorkshire is a hard place to ride a bike.
Psychological edge is massive in sprinting.
I always go for broke. It's win or nothing for me.
I need to be on a bike, mentally as much as physically.
I learned from BMX and skateboarding how to take a fall.
Every rider trains their muscles but few train their brain.
I have a fondness for junk food - it still calls me, sometimes.
I want to win wherever I race, the team's invested a lot in me.
I realised my whole focus each year is about the Tour de France.
It's so ironic that the better you get the easier it becomes to win.
There's no emotion. I just see the gap and, instinctively, go for it.
The Olympics is where you see out of this world performances, isn't it?
My job in the Tour is to get the sponsor's logo in the most prominent place.
What keeps athletes going is the optimism we are going to be able to compete again.
Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.
If I do a circuit, then after three laps I could tell you where all the potholes were.
If you don't enjoy something you can't keep at it. That's the thing that sticks with me.
Sometimes it can be more tiring with the kids than on the bike but I'm absolutely loving it.
But you have to take asthma seriously. People do not realise the stress our bodies go under.
I'm 100% a sprinter... an old school one, not one of these new guys that can climb and sprint.
When you're a young pro from an undeveloped country in road cycling then you're on the back foot.
I don't listen to any music when I train - I do it outdoors, and I'm not a fan of iPods on bikes.
You concentrate just on yourself. I can't wallow in anything, can't worry about what others are doing.
It's my job. It's not a hobby, it's how I put food on the table for my family. I have to be on a bike.
I constantly do puzzle books. Smash through them. My iPad's full of them. Logic puzzles. Bridges. Slitherlink.
I'm not getting bored with cycling or winning - I love it. But I need to give myself new targets all the time.
I love track racing and I'm proud to be a British cyclist and proud to pull on the jersey to represent my country.
I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.
I have to cross the line first. Sometimes you can put it as a fear of losing, but actually it's an addiction to winning.
I'm not as talented as others, but I have a determination and will that enable me to work a lot harder than anyone else.
When you win sprints, you're a great sprinter, but when you win a great one-day race, you've proved you're a great rider.
A lot of the riders end up in Monaco, but I don't need to be there for the tax purposes because I'm from the Isle of Man.
I'd love to have my achievements recognised and for people to know enough about cycling to understand what my achievements mean.
At the end of the day I want to be the first rider across that finish line and I'll just find the quickest and easiest way to do it.
My wife is so hot so I don't care it I lose every stage of the 2015 Tour to Kittle. Yea, he's got cool hair but my wife is super hot.
During the Tour you get tired, you get exhausted, you're in pain and you can get sick for a few days but still have to ride through it.
I think any professional athlete who says they stick to a strict diet and weigh their food out every time is either lying or they're sick.
I don't like being in London too long, because everybody's just looking straight forward, at nobody else. That freaks me out a little bit.
I'm going to do the Commonwealth Games for no other reason than national pride. It's something special getting to ride for the Isle of Man.
The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over matter.
I never think: 'If I crash, I'm going to hurt myself.' I might think: 'If I crash, I'm not going to win.' Everything's about that finish line.
I have a house in a small town in Tuscany where everybody knows and looks out for each other. That's a similar mentality to on the Isle of Man.
For any young rider even competing in the San Remo is one of the biggest things - but to win it is beyond emotion. You can't put it into words.
The stronger you are as a unit, the more you can control a race. The strongest cyclist in the world isn't as strong as two guys, let alone nine.
The descents are quite fun - everybody has a sort of competition and tries to go for it and then you compare top speeds when you get to the bottom.
Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I'd be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.
The beautiful thing about cycling is that it is so accessible and that pleased me when I was younger because you felt like you could almost touch the athletes.
In a sprint you make 100 decisions a second. What if X goes now and Y goes then? Should I take this gap or that one? You have to be sharp. Over time it becomes instinct.