I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
Victoria Pendleton
People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
I genuinely enjoy the process of making colourful, delicious food. But I do allow myself an occasional piece of chocolate - today I had a pastry. If I fancy something, I'll have it.
As you ride in a steeplechase, and you're on the horse, going quite fast, you think, 'That's quite a big fence...' But trust the horse, and don't give him any reason to doubt you.
I was always cycling for my dad. Then the coaches got bigger, and my results got better. Suddenly, the responsibility grows, and I'm doing it for somebody else, I'm doing it for a programme; I'm doing it for the country. I'm doing it for, like, everybody.
I've always been very fond of animals.
Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
Oddly enough you'd think, now that I wasn't training professionally, I'd be able to enjoy a lie-in at the weekend, but I actually slept more when I was competing because I was so tired.
A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
We've all said, 'No, no, I couldn't do that... ' But actually, you could if you just went, 'You know what? I will... and I shall.' Once you realise that, it's quite wonderful.
Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.
I used to have a rant all the time when things went wrong, at everybody around me, because you just have to get the frustration out.
I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.
I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'
I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.
I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
I like heels and make-up.
It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.
I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.
I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
I just want to prove that I am really good at something. And I haven't quite done that yet - at least not to myself. I know I could ride so much better, with more ease, with more finesse. I feel I'm nowhere near as good as I should be.
I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
As weird as it is it to see yourself on screen, it made everything we've been through seem very real. And, well, London is only weeks away now.
Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.
As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
I normally don't listen to my instincts because I'm so full of doubt.
I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
I was just, like, all I want to do is be really good at something. Really, really good at something, so people are vaguely impressed by me.
I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
I was constantly being told I shouldn't talk so much about how I was feeling. They seemed to think I was giving too much away to my competitors. Showing signs of weakness. But I've always thought that was rubbish.
I've never pretended that I'm not female and vulnerable. To me, it's just being honest.
We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
Don't get me wrong: there are some fantastic people who work at British Cycling who kept me together, who were there when I was struggling with it all. They were walking the same tightrope in many ways, because if you do speak up, your days are numbered.
I never really felt I had the same respect as my male team-mates. My opinion wasn't worth as much. I used to sit quietly in meetings and not say anything, as I knew my opinions would be disregarded. And that's after I had become Olympic champion and multiple world champion.
I turn left for a living.
I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
