“Apparently, I have such a serious race face, even when I'm doing a bit...” — Victoria Pendleton Quote

“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.”

“Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.”

“I've lost a lot more races than I've ever won... it's all part of the journey, really.”

“Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.”

“Again and again, I find something eerie in many Irish occasions - the unrelenting whiteness, the emotional tribal attachments, the violent prejudices lurking beneath apparently pleasant social surfaces, the cosy smugness of belonging.”

“Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.”