Mark Cavendish Quotes

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.

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.

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.

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Whatever I won in cycling, I won with my own skills. I never won anything I couldn't win. For example, I never won a time trial at 60 kph, whereas others have and maybe still do.

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

Lance Armstrong won seven Tours, that's 147 days of racing, and he never had a puncture or a mechanical. You can really minimise your chances of a mistake if you do everything right.

Time trialing is one of those things that you've got to train for... Being a new rider, it's still really hard for me to know what's the most efficient gear for me to be in. The road race is probably more exciting, in my opinion, because it's a lot faster pace, and people are constantly attacking.

Cycling is such a stupid sport. Next time you are in a car travelling at 40mph think about jumping out - naked. That's what it's like when we crash.

Sooner or later a rider will emerge who will win more Tours. In every sport we have seen how the records eventually get broken and cycling is no exception.

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.

Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road.

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

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

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

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.

You never want to concede a place, but when you're leading the race or fighting for a podium position, you can find ways to make your car very wide!

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.

I'm a big tandem bike rider... I've had a tandem bike since I was 12, and I wanna be a competitive tandem bike rider one day.

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 love track racing and I'm proud to be a British cyclist and proud to pull on the jersey to represent my country.

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.