Mark Cavendish Quotes

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

I'm 28, and for the next six or seven years my goal is to try to fight for the yellow jersey. If I can win it once I would be chuffed to bits.

When I see pot-bellied cyclists wearing the 'maillot jaune,' it appals me.

I've always thought that travelling every day as a journalist on the Tour's got to be harder than actually racing.

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.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

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

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.

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.

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.

Cycling is unique in that in any other sport I'd be in a different weight category or discipline. What I do is a different sport to what Chris Froome does.

I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.

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.

Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer.

We are pushing the limits on the chassis and the engine sides a lot in order to have a competitive car, and this is why we are winning races, but also, if you push the limits at a certain stage, you find them.

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

I put a lot of pressure on myself to perform, go out and win races.

I heal pretty well and I know if I crash on the first day of the Tour de France, I've got to get up and get on with it.

I think an Olympic medal is the only thing missing from what I can physically achieve as a cyclist. I can't win the Tour de France, but I've pretty much won everything else that I can within my physical realm, so that's the only thing missing.

The best thing I can do is keep advertising myself by winning races.

It was what I've always wanted, more than anything: to be an Olympic hero rather than a Tour de France star, something I had from childhood.

We have a very long-standing relationship with Renault, we've won a lot of races with them.

And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.