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.

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.

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.

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.

Don't let anyone or anything to dull your sparkle.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

The goodness of life is the gratitude of existence.

No one knows me. Not anymore

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Ideology makes people stupid.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

I almost ran you down, remember? I have to be nice to you, so you don't have me arrested.

I am my biggest marital problem

One of the most important things is just to be kind to other people. That is absolutely really important to us, and important to me. That's something that you need to help your kids with, for sure.