A biography for Bradley Wigginshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“My dad was a professional track racer. It's in my genes, and my first memories as a baby were in a velodrome.”
“I still look back and think, 'How did I win the Tour, going day to day under that pressure?'”
“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.”
“I went to see Ocean Colour Scene at Shepherds Bush and and felt part of something. They paved the way for me.”
“Success is easy to take for granted.”
“Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.”
“I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.”
“In sport, you just have to take what you can get.”
“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.”
“People think sport is life and death - it's not.”
“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.”