Victoria Pendleton Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Victoria Pendleton:

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

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

Food plays a large part in our weekend, but on a Friday evening, I'll make us something simple for tea. I might have a wee glass of wine.

Victoria Pendleton

I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.

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

My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.

Victoria Pendleton

I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.

Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton

People say, 'Wow, you've achieved it all this year: two world championship wins and an Olympic gold medal.' And I think, 'Yeah, but how come I feel so unsatisfied and under pressure all over again?'

Victoria Pendleton

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.

Victoria Pendleton

I go round and round in circles, really, really fast, on a big wooden bowl.

Victoria Pendleton

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

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

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.

Victoria Pendleton

It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.

Victoria Pendleton

Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.

Victoria Pendleton

I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?

Victoria Pendleton

In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

Victoria Pendleton

The men couldn't understand how I could be so successful and so insecure at the same time - because it doesn't really exist in the same way in the male psyche.

Victoria Pendleton

As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.

Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton

I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.

Victoria Pendleton

It's a very unique feeling - to be that strong and unbreakable. But I'm working towards it.

Victoria Pendleton

I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.

Victoria Pendleton

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

Victoria Pendleton

I'm not one for going out on the town on Friday night, as I've never been a big drinker, so I like getting the rubbish jobs out of the way so we can enjoy our free time.

Victoria Pendleton

I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.

Victoria Pendleton

I like heels and make-up.

Victoria Pendleton

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.'

Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton

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.

Victoria Pendleton

Anyone that has been lucky enough to go to the races and witness the magnificent spectacle of a competitive race will know how people like me can instantly fall in love with the power and beauty of race horses in full gallop.

Victoria Pendleton

I turn left for a living.

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

The sprint is sometimes like a toss of a coin. Sometimes it's heads, and sometimes it's tails.

Victoria Pendleton