Victoria Pendleton Quotes

I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.

I ran track, and I was really good at it. I was really fast.

I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which is a very tough race and a full sprint.

Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time.

I enjoy racing so much. Ever since I was 8 or 9, I trained every stroke, because it was the only way I could race a lot.

I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.

The 100m is never stressful.

What I think is about running faster and faster, and I believe that will translate into medals.

If you put me against most sprinters in the world, I reckon over a start I could get very close, if not take them.

Hurdling, sprinting, athletics in general, is always in the back of your mind.

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that hasn't been done before. You get all this magnetic energy, people focusing on one thing at the same time. I really get excited about it. It makes me want to compete even more. It makes it all worthwhile, all the hours of hard work.

When we race in London a world record will be the last thing on our minds.

I am a better running back every time I step on the field. I try to get better each game, each summer, each season.

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

I like to run.

You think aerobics is not a cool sport? I think you are wrong. It requires amazing discipline - flexibility, fitness, knowledge. And you have to do it with a big smile on your face. Also, I once performed in front of 10,000 screaming women. I tell you something, I'd rather do that than kick a ball around in front of a few men.

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

I honestly think if I would've tied my suit and there wouldn't have been any water rushing through it, I think I could've gone at least a second faster.

I don't know why I run so fast. I just run.

I always wanted to be a sprinter.

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.