I think just drinking juice is too extreme for a diet. Your body needs more than juice, so I think it's a very hard thing to do - very challenging and probably very unhealthy for your body. You can't get everything you need from a juice. I love juice because it can provide you with nutrients - but drink it alongside your diet!
— Victoria Pendleton
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.
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.
I love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.
It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
Apparently, I have such a serious race face, even when I'm doing a bit of work, at first everybody wasn't sure if I was enjoying it or not. But it's absolutely exhilarating. It feels like you're one with your horse and you're flying.
As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.
I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.
Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
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.
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.
Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.
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.
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.
There have been a lot of moments in my career when things haven't gone to plan.
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.
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 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!
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.
Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.
I've been told from the start, 'Don't fall in love with the horses'. But that's so hard. I'm in awe.
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.
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.
My success has got so great, it's like I'm trapped, almost, within it.
I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
Winning is no longer just the outcome. It's part of the process.
I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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.
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.
I worried I was a boyish shape. I always thought I might grow some, but it never happened.
You have to make the mistakes and have those failures in order to learn from them and grow and improve... But for me, the best way to combat any of that beating yourself up or overanalysing, the most important part is always to be prepared to the best of your ability.
Eating vegetarian in the past would have been a really bad choice as an athlete. Impossible. Just being able to get the amount of protein in was a mission. You couldn't be picky. I feel quite liberated by the fact that I can now quite recklessly choose vegetarian food.
I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
I quite enjoy sport, and I'm now an Olympic champion. It's a bit weird, isn't it?
I went to Australia and did a three day hike with my fiance through the wilderness, which was nice.
I thrive on having support around me, even if they are not actively doing something. I feel happier, more confident.
You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.
It's a rare and special feeling to ride a racehorse.
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.
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.
The sponsorship offers have been amazing. I have to turn down a lot.
I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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.
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.
I used to feel very lonely on the team. The boys would all pair up.
As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.
