You will have ups and downs - but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
Geraint Thomas
I've put on a helmet more times than I've buckled a seatbelt.
Just dream big. Go for it. There's nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don't let people put you down.
When you're eating salad and quinoa while training, all you want is a burger. In the cycling season, when I'm doing 30-odd hours of exercise a week, I'm dreaming of burgers and curries that I'll have at the end of the season.
I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.
Life's not fair, I guess.
I never thought I would grow up writing a book.
I've won the Tour. But no, I don't feel I'm a celebrity.
Winning that team-pursuit Olympic gold medal was unbelievable.
I am not really superstitious - I get ready in the same order pretty much every day. I'm afraid I'm a bit boring like that.
I was fortunate to be born when I was. There's been a massive rise in British cycling since I joined the junior programme when I was 17. It all started in 2004 when Chris Hoy won gold for the 1 km. time trial in Athens; when one person starts doing well, they take everyone with them.
I rode for Maindy Flyers, a local kids' club from Cardiff. We started travelling across the country doing races, but Manchester was the first stage race I did.
I used to run home from school to watch Paris-Nice, so to win it is just crazy.
Everyone in the world of cycling knows how much it is a team sport as well as individual. It's just amazing to be a part of.
I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.
I miss the BBC when I'm away. I'm away so much that it's a pleasure just walking back through the door and sitting on the sofa to watch some rubbish TV.
You get into such a routine of trying so hard each day and racing between 180 and 220 km., and as soon as you stop, it's weird, but you start to seize up. So it's easier if you keep the body ticking over. You just feel better for it come race day.
I get moody when I'm tired or hungry. My missus says I get moody... but not with other people. But I can get grumpy.
In a stage race, you can have bad luck or make a mistake, and it's not the end of the race. You have more opportunities.
I want to do marathons; I want to do an Ironman.
The last thing I want to do, even in the off-season, is traipse around shops looking for clothes: it's not my thing.
Brits love an underdog, don't they?
It's hard to put into words, really, how proud I am and great it is to represent Wales because, in cycling, it's a little-known country, so it's nice to put it on the map.
I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what it is like until you actually compete.
I had a normal, nice upbringing in Cardiff.
Of course you want a better culture of cycling in the U.K. Better roads. More respect.
I don't mind it when people come up to me and say, 'Well done.' That's lovely. The bit that's weird is stuff like... I've had a load of eBay people hounding me. Just sort of getting you to sign stuff which they can then sell.
I'm a big fan of Anthony Joshua.
My wife, she puts up with a lot: we're training hard, you're tired, you're not eating a lot, so you get a bit grumpy, so she does put up with a lot - fair play.
I like riding for five or six hours, then sitting on the sofa staring at the TV. It's my normal.
In Britain, we have this attitude that people are one-hit wonders. If it proves that way, I'd rather have had that one hit than not at all.
