People come up to me in the street and use words like ‘legend.’
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
I wanted to put a really good kids’ racing bike out there for kids under 14: 10-year-olds, eight-year-olds, right down to balance bikes for kids.
Bradley Wiggins
Cycling is a part of my life; it always has been, and I will always continue to cycle. I won’t be doing it on the world stage, doing it competitively, but I’ll still be out on the weekend with the masses riding around Richmond Park in my Team Sky jersey or whatever. I just love it.
Bradley Wiggins
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?’
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
They do say now in cycling that there’s no such thing as bad weather – it’s bad clothing.
Bradley Wiggins
The changing of the goals helps keep the motivation fresh.
Bradley Wiggins
My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?
Bradley Wiggins
I began cycling round the Serpentine because it was the only closed route in London where I could ride traffic-free.
Bradley Wiggins
I don’t make predictions. I know what I can do, and I try not to think too far ahead.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
I know the freedom that cycling gives you in terms of being able to just jump on and go.
Bradley Wiggins
The Tour has changed, and I can’t make up my mind if it’s changed for the better or worse.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
Growing up, the news agents round my way in Kilburn all had ‘Time Out’ on their shopfronts. The logo is a London icon.
Bradley Wiggins
You can plan physically to try to win the Tour, but I could never plan for what was going to happen after it.
Bradley Wiggins
I’d love to win Paris-Roubaix.
Bradley Wiggins
I feel like I was born to ride the track.
Bradley Wiggins
My dad was a professional track racer. It’s in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
I’m not just a time triallist any more.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
Usually, the great thing about cycling is that anybody can watch it; it’s very accessible.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
Working-class people don’t tend to be wooed by celebrity.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
I didn’t like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
You know what? I’ve won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.
Bradley Wiggins
I’m not really a computer man, to be honest. I check my emails every couple of weeks.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in ’93 in Oslo.
Bradley Wiggins
I think my wife has struggled a bit because of how obsessive I get with what I eat and stuff.
Bradley Wiggins
It’s difficult, and it’s an incredibly fine balance between getting your weight right down and being anorexic.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
If I’m going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.
Bradley Wiggins
I take my kids to school. It’s what keeps you normal.
Bradley Wiggins
Not having my father around has made me a better person.
Bradley Wiggins
If I can win the Tour de France, there is hope for everybody.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
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.
Bradley Wiggins
Sir Wiggo sounds nice.
Bradley Wiggins
It’s really incredible to win an Olympic Gold in your home city.
Bradley Wiggins