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.

It is nice to be recognised for actually achieving something in life as opposed to spending seven weeks in a house on TV with a load of other muppets.

Cycling has given me everything.

If you're into the brand and the heritage of the brand, you can always remember where you got your first Fred Perry Shirt, and for me I was nine years old

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

London has what it takes to host the greatest sporting show on earth [on the 2012 Olympic bid

My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?

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.

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.

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

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.

This is what happens. You tell your friends your most personal secrets, and they use them against you.

As a rich man, when you mock the poor you fail the test of wealth.

You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well." Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

Think about the brain as the densest concentration of youness. It's the peak of the mountain, but not the whole mountain.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

The key to happiness. Hm.... There are just so many factors. I think it's just a way of being. It's about.... every little thing in moderation. Whether it be stress, anger, joy, depression.

Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.

Why try to pursue what is completed?

Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war

Everyone must hoe his plot daily.