93 Quotes by Bradley Wiggins

I was a bit of a loner at school because I was into what I was into, that sort of scene; that is where the whole mod thing started, when I was 14-15.

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

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

In sport, you just have to take what you can get.

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.

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.

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.

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 still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'