“Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dro...” — Jonathan Brownlee Quote

“Yorkshire weather can turn quickly. At one Auld Lang Syne race, it dropped to -16C. The frost turned everybody's hair grey. I couldn't take my shoes off, as my laces had frozen solid.”

“Your hips get really stiff when you're stuck on a bike for several hours each day.”

“Alistair made my goals feel more achievable. I remember him competing for Great Britain when he was 15, and he came back with his GB kit. I thought, 'Wow, I want a part of that.' Sportsmen can seem distant, like superheroes. Seeing my brother achieve that made me think I could, too.”

“That first tape I did dropped in 2009. It was just for fun, I'm like 'I'm just going to do something to have fun.' Everyone was just 'put out a tape. You're young. You've got money. It ain't gonna hurt you. Who's it gonna hurt?' So what I ended up doing was I put out the tape, pressed up 20,000 CDs, flooded the streets.”

“I never dropped my surname.”

“I was a wide receiver at the University of Missouri but dropped out, having never gotten in a game.”