Quotes by Nicola Adams - Page 1

I'm like a 'comeback kid' - you can't keep me down for long!
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Comeback
Long
Like
Me
Down
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I love shopping, but I only really have time to do it online.
Nicola Adams /
Shopping
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All I want is to keep boxing for Great Britain and inspire others.
Nicola Adams /
Boxing
Britain
Great Britain
Inspire
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Nothing ever stops me smiling, apart from getting beat in the ring.
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Apart
Beat
Ring
Stops
Smiling
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I'd love to be the Ali of women's boxing, to retire as the greatest.
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Boxing
Ali
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As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it.
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Picky
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I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set.
Nicola Adams /
Commonwealth
Champion World Want
Olympic
World Champion
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Even though I am a woman boxer, I am not just inspiring women; I hope I am inspiring boys as well.
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Inspiring
Boxer
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I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work.
Nicola Adams /
Boxing
Charity
Charity Work
Work Myself Me
Work Myself I Am
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I'm good at clearing things out. If I haven't worn something for a while, I'll give it away to charity.
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Charity
Clearing
Worn
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Just imagine if women's sport was on the TV all the time - how many more female athletes we would have?
Nicola Adams /
Female
Imagine
Tv
Athletes
Time Women More
Sport
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Our boxing is not like the men's. It's more thoughtful, more technical. It's not just, 'Get in there and hurt someone.'
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Boxing
Hurt
Thoughtful
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If I've got an event coming up, I might buy myself a new suit. I prefer wearing suits to dresses - I reckon I've got about 15.
Nicola Adams /
Event
Reckon
Suit
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I got my inspiration when I sat down with my father, at about eight or nine years old, and watched 'The Rumble in the Jungle.'
Nicola Adams /
Eight
Inspiration
Jungle
Nine
Sat
Watched
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You can have someone younger, faster, but if you have got that experience and that ring craft, you can do anything in that ring.
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Faster
Ring
Craft
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Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react.
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Anger
Emotion
Stuff
Unnecessary
Choose
How
Matters
Loads
React
Trigger
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Sometimes my brain is saying, 'Go wild on food,' and I'll want to pig out, but I'll tell myself, 'No.' You either want to win or you don't.
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Brain
Wild
Either
Pig
Saying
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One girl said when I won my gold that was what inspired her to do boxing. She was only 12, and that is the same age I was when I first started.
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Boxing
Gold
Won
Same Age
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My family and friends are the only people I pay mind to. It's none of my business what anyone else thinks. I don't even know them, so why should I care?
Nicola Adams /
Family And Friends
Anyone Else
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Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a gold medal in the Olympics and being a world champion.
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Champion
Gold
Medal
Muhammad
Olympics
World Champion Me
Ali
World Me Gold
Champion World Me
Gold Medal
World Champion
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In places like the U.S. and Germany, women's professional boxing is already quite big, but I'd like to be the name that makes it bigger and gives it more global appeal.
Nicola Adams /
Boxing
Germany
Appeal
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When I was young, I used to watch videos of Ali boxing, with my dad. It set me on the road. I wanted to be like Ali. I wanted to have my own Nicki shuffle and everything.
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Boxing
Shuffle
Ali
Videos
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My mum did really well raising me and my brother by herself. I know it was a struggle, and even from a young age, when I was boxing, it was always to make my mother proud.
Nicola Adams /
Boxing
Mum
Young Age
Herself
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There is so much to learn from boxing, you can never have learnt everything; anybody who says they know it all is lying. You can't - there is always something new to learn.
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Boxing
Lying
Something New
Always New Never
Anybody
New Always Never
Learnt
Says
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Everywhere I go, people ask me for photos and autographs, saying I inspired them to start training. Boris Johnson says his sons started boxing after seeing me - how cool is that?
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Autographs
Boxing
Johnson
Photos
Sons
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I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible.
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History
Anything Is Possible
Boxing
Gold
Made
Said
Achieved
Away
Came
Possible
Still
Highest Level
Level
Performed
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To finally become world champion after losing out in three previous finals is very satisfying. It shows that if you stick to your goals and work hard, you can achieve them in the end.
Nicola Adams /
Achieve
Losing
Satisfying
Shows
Finally
Work Champion World
In The End
Previous
Stick
Work Hard
World Champion
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When I look back, I only do so to see what I've done in my past - my gold medals and the Championships that I've won. Really, I just look to the future and hopefully winning even more.
Nicola Adams /
Gold
Championships
Future Look Past
Medals
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Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.
Nicola Adams /
Awake
Big Problems
Missing
Me Day Night
Me Night Day
Glass
Spider
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I would be more wary of boxing a pretty boxer than I would one that looks like they have been bashed up a bit because the pretty boxer obviously doesn't get hit - so that means they must be quite good!
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Boxing
Bashed
Boxer
Wary
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Every time I get in the ring, I have to give 110 per cent because my opponents have nothing to lose and everything to gain, so I have to make sure I go in there with my A-game and come away with the victory.
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Opponents
Ring
Cent
Every Time
Gain
Per
Lose
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It isn't just sports people that need someone to look up to - everyone needs that: LGBT people, the general public. To be honest, it's nice to feel that I can inspire so many people in so many areas of public life.
Nicola Adams /
General Public
Inspire
Public Life
So Many People
To Be Honest
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I train for at least two hours, three times a day - weights, bench-press, push-ups, running, sparring, boxing sessions - so I must be burning off a lot of calories. But I don't weigh myself too often - just once every day.
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Boxing
Burning
Calories
Push Ups
Sparring
Myself Day Every Day
Weights
Weigh
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Yes, I'm always keeping my eye on trends and designers. With certain favourites, I can tell you what season an item of clothing is from. I've been to a few catwalk shows, and I love seeing how the clothes look on a person.
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Clothes
Eye
Seeing
Love Always Look
Designers
Item
Yes
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Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical.
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Aggression
Avoiding
Boxing
Chess
Mist
Red
Tactical
Ring
Getting
Encourage
Opponent
See
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It is really important that we get more women doing exercise and being active, and those that have taken up boxing or boxing training will definitely find that it has a really positive impact on their health, fitness and well-being.
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Fitness
Active
Boxing
Positive Impact
Well Being
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No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always been out; it's just the general public didn't know. I'm quite fearless. I'm like, 'Let's just go out there and do this and see what happens.'
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General Public
Always Me See
Quite
General
Came
Cared
Public
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Women boxers prefer to focus on the win rather than the bravado. We've come a long way. In the '90s, you only ever saw women parading in heels and a bikini holding a scorecard. Now we're owning it; we should get some male models in Speedos to do the ring walk.
Nicola Adams /
Boxers
Bravado
Heels
Long Way
Models
Male
Ring
Bikini
Holding
Owning
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At the 2012 Olympics, there was a nutritionist in the food hall telling us, 'Eat that. And eat that.' After winning my gold, I went to McDonald's for chicken nuggets and a strawberry milkshake, but that was just for the hell of it. I don't feel hungry after a match, to be honest.
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Gold
Honest
Hungry
Nutritionist
Olympics
Winning
Chicken
Hall
Mcdonald
Match
Telling
To Be Honest
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I think the more people that feel comfortable in their own skin and feel happy that they can come out and know that it's not going to affect their job or moving up in their career is the way forward. Just making people feel happy and comfortable in their own job and in their sport.
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Affect
More People
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When The Queen invited the Olympians to the Palace, I was first in line to speak to her. She said she watched the Games and how happy she was, how impressed she was with the boxing. She told me she'd watched my fight and enjoyed it. I didn't realise the effect I'd had on the whole country.
Nicola Adams /
Boxing
Impressed
Invited
Watched
Queen
Olympians
Palace
Realise
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I only went into a gym by accident. My mum couldn't get a babysitter and wanted to do aerobics, so she took me and Kurtis, my younger brother, down to the gym. There was an after-school boxing class on with some of the kids from school. There weren't any other girls there, but I didn't mind. I loved it.
Nicola Adams /
After School
Babysitter
Boxing
Gym
Mum
Younger Brother
Accident
Aerobic
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A couple of weeks after the Olympics, I thought I'd pop down to my local supermarket and do some grocery shopping. One person came up to me in the frozen food aisle, and that was it. I was mobbed, and I had to leave my shopping. Now, I either shop online or go very late at night when the supermarket's nearly empty.
Nicola Adams /
Aisle
Couple
Empty
Frozen
Grocery Shopping
Late
Night
Olympics
Shopping
After
Nearly
Weeks
Came
Either
Leave
Grocery
Local
Shop
Supermarket
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Everybody wants that spot: everybody wants to beat Nicola Adams. Everybody wants to be the Olympic champion; everybody wants to beat the Olympic champion. It's made me train that much harder and stay that much more focused. I guess, in a way, I've got them to thank for keeping me motivated and focused on the job I need to do.
Nicola Adams /
Focused
Harder
Motivated
Beat
Spot
Olympic
Thank
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