Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!

Victoria Pendleton
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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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?'

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I like heels and make-up.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I find it hard to act other than the way I feel.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton
Victoria Pendleton

I've always been very fond of animals.