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

- Victoria Pendleton

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.

- Victoria Pendleton

I love sport and will do just about anything. Someone said they'd had a go at skiing off a mountain with a parachute, and that sounds great!

- Victoria Pendleton

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

- Victoria Pendleton

I like heels and make-up.

- Victoria Pendleton

I have always loved animals and groomed friends' horses as a child. I think I may have even ridden the odd seaside donkey in my early years.

- Victoria Pendleton

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

- Victoria Pendleton

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

- Victoria Pendleton

I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

- Victoria Pendleton

I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.

- Victoria Pendleton

I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

- Victoria Pendleton

A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.

- Victoria Pendleton

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

- Victoria Pendleton

I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

- 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

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.

- 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

As you get older, you get more accepting - although, if you asked me whose body I would want, I would say Jess Ennis's at the Olympics.

- 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

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

- Victoria Pendleton