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I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.
Gareth Bale
People
Phone
Got
Any
Just
Famous
Really
Certainly
Thing
Numbers
When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
Gareth Bale
Time
You
Game
Every
Other
Say
More
Winning
Week
Attacking
Open
League
Block
Off
Up
Against
Used
Premier
Premier League
Team
Teams
Play
Champions
Champions League
Playing
Defend
Set
I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
Gareth Bale
Aim
Consistent
League
Qualifying
Ambitious
Want
Play
Start
Champions
Champions League
Basis
Now that sports science is more advanced, we know that there are so many off-pitch factors that can affect how good you can become. If people are telling you to sleep a certain number of hours, eat specific foods, and drink a certain volume of fluids, then you have to be prepared to listen and learn.
Gareth Bale
Good
You
Sports
Science
People
Become
Telling
Eat
Be Prepared
More
Drink
Foods
Factors
Volume
Advanced
Hours
Know
Learn
How
Affect
Listen
Then
Certain
Many
Prepared
Now
Specific
Number
Sleep
You've just got to listen to what experienced people are telling you. You've obviously got to listen to what they want you to do in training and in matches and commit to improving every aspect of your game.
Gareth Bale
You
Game
People
Training
Every
Telling
Obviously
Matches
Got
Improving
Commit
Listen
Just
Experienced
Want
Aspect
Your
I don't give much thought to individual awards.
Gareth Bale
Thought
Give
Individual
Much
Awards
The one player I have looked up to since I was a kid is Ryan Giggs.
Gareth Bale
Kid
Since
Looked
Up
Player
I was quite small; then I had a big growth spurt that led to a problem with my back, which stopped me playing for a while. My bones were growing too quick for my weight.
Gareth Bale
Me
Problem
Big
Too
Back
Small
Had
Weight
Were
Led
Quick
Quite
Stopped
Which
While
Then
Growing
Growth
Playing
Bones
I don't think you ever feel 100 percent throughout a season. If you ask any player, I don't think they ever feel 100 percent fresh every week.
Gareth Bale
You
Every
Think
Percent
Week
Throughout
Feel
Fresh
Any
Ask
Season
Ever
Player
To represent your country is a massive honour.
Gareth Bale
Country
Honour
Massive
Represent
Your
Everyone I know is fervently proud to be Welsh but you try not to be preachy about it. It's difficult at times. But when I go home to north Wales, or to somewhere I've never been in south Wales, I still feel at home because I'm in Wales. It's hard to explain.
Gary Speed
Home
You
Try
Somewhere
Difficult
Everyone
About
Never
Feel
Know
Because
Proud
Still
Welsh
Go
Go Home
Been
South
Fervently
Wales
Times
North
Explain
Hard
You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
Gary Speed
You
Game
Result
Believe
Got
Get
Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.
Gary Speed
You
Win
Recurring
Obvious
Goal
Scoring
Going
Theme
Then
Games
I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
Gary Speed
Football
Leave
Want
Newcastle
Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.
Gary Speed
Me
You
Sometimes
Long
Other
Everyone
Out
Tells
Goes
Play
Ear
I love everything about playing for Newcastle, the club, the fans and the city.
Gary Speed
Love
Fans
Club
Everything
City
About
Newcastle
Playing
You will have ups and downs - but believe anything is possible. With hard work, it can come off.
Geraint Thomas
Work
Hard Work
You
Ups And Downs
Will
Believe
Possible
Come
Off
Ups
Anything
Anything Is Possible
Hard
Downs
I just love riding my bike - no more so than at home in Cardiff and in South Wales on the roads where I started out, riding with my mates who I grew up with.
Geraint Thomas
Love
Home
Out
More
Roads
Mates
South
Up
Wales
Than
Just
Where
Grew
Bike
Who
Riding
Started
Everyone in the world of cycling knows how much it is a team sport as well as individual. It's just amazing to be a part of.
Geraint Thomas
World
Amazing
Cycling
Everyone
Individual
Part
Sport
Well
Knows
How
How Much
Just
Much
Team
Team Sport
When you're eating salad and quinoa while training, all you want is a burger. In the cycling season, when I'm doing 30-odd hours of exercise a week, I'm dreaming of burgers and curries that I'll have at the end of the season.
Geraint Thomas
You
Training
Burger
Cycling
Dreaming
Eating
Week
Hours
Exercise
Doing
Salad
End
Want
While
Season
I regret not paying a bit more attention to Welsh lessons at school. My Welsh is pretty ropey, as back at my school, people didn't take Welsh lessons seriously. My dad can speak it, so I wish he'd taught me some growing up.
Geraint Thomas
Me
People
Regret
Speak
School
Seriously
Wish
Back
Bit
Some
Pretty
More
Take
He
Attention
Welsh
Up
Taught
Paying
Lessons
Dad
Growing
Growing Up
I miss the BBC when I'm away. I'm away so much that it's a pleasure just walking back through the door and sitting on the sofa to watch some rubbish TV.
Geraint Thomas
Rubbish
Back
Pleasure
TV
Some
Through
Miss
Walking
Sitting
Just
Door
Just Walking
Much
Away
Watch
Sofa
Brits love an underdog, don't they?
Geraint Thomas
Love
Brits
Underdog
I have come to see what the Tour is about, and it has been harder than I imagined. You don't realise what it is like until you actually compete.
Geraint Thomas
You
Has-Been
See
About
Tour
Come
Like
Until
Been
Than
Realise
Harder
Actually
Compete
Imagined
I rode for Maindy Flyers, a local kids' club from Cardiff. We started travelling across the country doing races, but Manchester was the first stage race I did.
Geraint Thomas
First
Country
Stage
Club
Local
Flyers
Kids
Doing
Rode
Did
Manchester
Race
Races
Across
Travelling
Started
I've won the Tour. But no, I don't feel I'm a celebrity.
Geraint Thomas
Tour
Feel
Won
Celebrity
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