Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Bradley Wiggins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British athlete Bradley Wiggins.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, CBE is a British former professional road and track racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2016. He began his cycling career on the track, but later made the transition to road cycling. He won world titles in four disciplines, and Olympic gold in three. He is the only rider to have won both World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road as well as winning the Tour de France. He has worn the leader's jersey in each of the three Grand Tours of cycling and held the world record in team pursuit on multiple occasions. He won a gold medal at four successive Olympic Games from 2004 to 2016, and held the record as Great Britain's most decorated Olympian with 8 medals until Jason Kenny won his 9th in 2021. He is the only rider to win both the Tour de France and Olympic Gold in the same year, winning them a week apart in 2012. During his career and afterwards he faced a series of allegations that he exploited a loophole in cycling's anti-doping regulations to use a performance-enhancing drug, injections of the powerful corticosteroid, triamcinolone. He did not receive any bans or suspensions in relation to doping during his career.

British - Athlete | Born: April 28, 1980

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I've got a EC3-35 Gibson, which is pretty cherished. I've got a vintage Reichenbacker 330 in fireglow, which is the other one I look after and don't let the kids touch.

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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.

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The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.

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

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I've become more of a climber now - who still keeps that time trial as strong as ever. It gives me such self-belief. I feel a different athlete.

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

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You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.

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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.

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I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.

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I always found that the more extreme and the more eccentric I was, that's what would separate me. I always felt that I needed that separation; otherwise, I'd just be like everybody else.

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

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If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.

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I had a small investment in Twofold, following guidance from my professional advisers. I had, however, claimed no tax relief of any amount in regard to this investment. Given the concerns raised about it, I have now instructed my advisors to withdraw me from the scheme with immediate effect.

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

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Things change; your priorities change in life. So I'd never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I've got two kids, and it's selfish.

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

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If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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When I won gold in Athens, I said to my wife Cath, who was pregnant, 'This baby of ours will never want for anything.' There was real pride in that - but it just didn't happen.

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The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.

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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.

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I feel like I was born to ride the track.

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I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.

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

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I'm not just a time triallist any more.

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

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I take my kids to school. It's what keeps you normal.

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You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.

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You train all year for the physical aspect of cycling, but you can't plan for what comes next. You're still the same person. External perceptions might change, but inside, you're the same.

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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.

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One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

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

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Sir Wiggo sounds nice.

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

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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.

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The more time I was spending with the British team, the more of a laugh I was having with them. It's clean, their way of cycling; it's more about what you can produce as an athlete.

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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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I wanted to give an honest insight into a consuming Tour. It's turned out pretty interesting because there aren't many books out there documenting someone's failure.

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

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That period afterwards, just hating being the winner of the Tour de France, hating cycling, hating the media for asking me questions about Lance Armstrong.

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You take for granted that you can walk. You do it every day, and then suddenly you can't walk, and you have to remember, 'How did I get out of this chair and start walking in the first place?'

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

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

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You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.

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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.

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I may never get back to the track. The problem was that I was dominating my event, and the winning became slightly boring. I wanted new challenges, and I've got that on the road.

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When I did win the Tour, I felt I was feted more in the U.K. for being an Olympic gold medallist... Then I come back to Europe to race, and they're not interested in the Olympic gold; it's about being the winner of the Tour de France - here he is.

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

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

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If you didn't go out every time it was raining, you wouldn't get anything done. So it's a case of making the right clothing choice in terms of waterproof, breathable, warm clothing.

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

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

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I feel a different person in a lot of ways. I feel much more professional and dedicated to my trade than I used to be. I appreciate this ability I've got - and don't take it for granted any more. That fits every aspect of my life now.

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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.

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