Britain Quote by Jim Lampley

To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

— Bradley Wiggins

But you know we couldn't compare what we do with what the British athletes did at the Olympics. We are very proud to be…

— Louis Tomlinson

In Britain, we don't appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you.

— Stephen Hendry

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big…

— Clare Balding

I think an Olympic medal is the only thing missing from what I can physically achieve as a cyclist. I can't win the Tour…

— Mark Cavendish

It is an important competition and I certainly rate my gold medals at the Commonwealth Games right up there with my world titles and…

— Chris Hoy

Team GB's success at the Beijing Olympics can, in part, be said to have been made in Manchester. For example, all the cycling medal…

— Lucy Powell

I would never have looked at cycling as something I could do had I not got ill and lived in Manchester where British Cycling…

— Kadeena Cox

The uptake of people getting involved in cycling is partly down to the big success the team has had in the Tour de France,…

— Chris Hoy

In para-cycling I am a veteran with Olympic medals now.

— Alex Zanardi

No sport is 100 per cent clean - I think 95 per cent of the cyclists are clean. In the normal world, not everybody is clean.

— Eddy Merckx

The 2012 Olympics is going to cost £8 billion which is a lot of money. It'll probably bankrupt London. But you can't put a…

— Jimmy Carr