118 Quotes by Chris Hoy

It is an important competition and I certainly rate my gold medals at the Commonwealth Games right up there with my world titles and my Olympic titles.

The bottom line is that most cycling kit exists for a reason. The padded shorts, for example, might look silly, but if you are riding for any length of time on a small, thin saddle you are going to feel it.

I just hope I can inspire young people and get more people into cycling.

As a sprinter, body weight was never an issue for me, not like the long distance riders who have to be so careful.

Having a fall, breaking your wrist, that could be the week before the Olympics. That is why sport is always exciting.

The road which can be quite an allure when you are young.

I've become Olympic champion six times and I've never taken a performance-enhancing drug in my life, but I was lucky in that I never even had the choice. I never had pressure and I never had a person come to me saying, 'You should do this.'

Cycling is low-impact, which is why people cycle into their 70s or 80s, but track cycling means hard gym work and crashes.

Kuala Lumpur was my first ever multi-sports games. I didn't do very well but the experience and enjoyment I had of those games really made me realize how much work I had to do and inspired me to work harder for the Sydney Olympics.