Chris Froome Quotes

I think everyone lifts themselves that little bit extra for the Tour de France, being the pinnacle of our cycling calendar.

I think the San Sebastian victory and and my European time trial title, and the second place in the worlds, really changed my life and my career a lot.

I am really looking forward to being present in my first three-week race, the Giro d'Italia, a huge and prestigious event that captures one's imagination.

I used to run home from school to watch Paris-Nice, so to win it is just crazy.

Second doesn't mean anything in cycling.

When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.

To be a part of TT history is a massive achievement. It is one of, if not the greatest races on two wheels, if not on four.

I realised my whole focus each year is about the Tour de France.

If somebody had told me as a kid that I would win 30 stages of the Tour de France I probably wouldn't have imagined it. I probably imagined I could do it - I don't lack confidence - but at the end of the day one Tour de France stage win can make a rider's career.

Sometimes the hardest part of the stage is right at the beginning. The other teams will leave it to us to chase down a breakaway, and we can't allow a big group to go up the road - anything more than four riders is trouble.

You know what? I've won the Tour de France, and now I feel ready to talk about it.

The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

I remember sitting in school and thinking, 'I don't know why I'm here, because I know I'm going to act and I know I'm going to America.'

From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.

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.

I don't know, you know all through high school I just knew I wanted to do it.

Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on television during the Tour de France. I can do that for hours.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

As a kid, I said, 'I want to write for movies.' When I finally had that opportunity it was like I was able to exhale. 'Wow, I'm finally doing this for real.'

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

I always wanted to be a hairdresser.

Modeling was something I wanted to try from a really young age.

But, listen, Eddie Merkyx would have won six Tours if he hadn't been punched.