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

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

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.

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.

everything happens for a reason.

The eternal spacecreates the temporary spacesand anti-spacesfor zero.

The people who come to me are the people who are meant to come to me.

There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays.

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

It is a truism throughout the civilized galaxy that when you go to the police, your troubles really begin.

There are some people who don't believe in entertainment if you're a Christian artist. But I think it's a good thing for it to be entertainment at the same time.

When you change what you believe, you change what you do.

Before, you were only a dream. Now you're a dream come true