Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Ellie Simmonds
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British athlete Ellie Simmonds.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I love 'Come Dine With Me.'
I don't see it as a disability. I'm just a normal person, but a bit smaller than everyone else.
I'm OK travelling, meeting people, seeing the world with my own eyes.
It's nice to hope to inspire people out there who maybe have a little less motivation or who are low in confidence or self-belief to go out there and achieve.
I've always been focused.
I recently met Michael Phelps. He is my absolute idol. I was totally starstruck. I did manage to get a few words out.
I've got to go out there and do a job and focus on swimming and do my own thing, and I think us athletes can go out there and perform no matter what... This is what we train to do.
I think there are definitely times when I feel the expectations on my shoulders and I think it's because even before I race people expect me to get a gold medal and it's not the case.
I think people shouldn't think 'I'm not normal, I've got a disability.' Overcome that, go out there and enjoy your life and achieve something.
If you've got a disabilty you're normal, it's just something that's different.
It drives me forward knowing people are watching me and I have to swim well.
It's hard to stay at the top. There's a cheesy saying isn't there: it's easy to get to the top but once you're there it's harder to stay there, and I'm fully aware of that.
Four Games is incredible. Especially as an nine-year-old watching Athens 2004. To think as a kid then I would not just go to one Games but four.
I spoke to my parents and my agent a year before Rio. I was like: 'I don't want to do this. I want to get away.' They said: 'Just grit your teeth for a year. Then you can have your break. And if you want to retire, you can retire then.' I was in tears. I just hated it.
I've swum with dolphins in Mozambique and with bull sharks off Mexico. They didn't tell me how dangerous the sharks were until after I got out.
I've always been competitive and determined. It's part of my personality.
For me I normally rise up to a Paralympics, I love those pressured environments.
It's really exciting to get the Paralympic sport out there and inspire the next generation - I remember watching the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games that inspired me to want to got to a Paralympic Games.
I want to go to the Paralympics in Tokyo in 2020 so that's my aim in sport, but what do I want to do after I retire? Do I want to do a normal job? I would like to become a primary school teacher but... it will be totally different.
I don't wear jewellery and I don't care about shoes and dresses. But I love my handbags. They're my real luxury.
Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It's really embarrassing.
The highlight of my career was London 2012.
Monday to Fridays I'm practically an athlete every hour of the day.
When I was on the podium singing the national anthem, and the crowd were all singing it, it was definitely... It was a moment to remember, and I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life.
On a typical Monday I swim from six until 8am. I go from there to the gym and do a session from nine until half 10. I get home about 11ish. Take a nap and have lunch. Swim from half three to half five. I get home at half six. Have dinner.
I learnt to swim at the age of four or five. My parents took me to a club where you go from learning to swim to competing.
After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.
I'm the baby of the family and love it.
Growing up, most of our family holidays were staycations in the U.K.
When I bake, I give it to people because when I'm full-time training, I have to really watch what I eat.
I grew up swimming. Our first house in Aldridge, in the West Midlands, had a pool at the bottom of the garden.
I don't want to be stuck up. I'm just a normal person. My friends think of me as a normal friend, and I like that.
When I was in Beijing, London, and also in Rio I was still a kid really, I didn't feel pressure.
I jumped into my parents loft where I was actually able to go through all my cards, all the newspaper cuttings that my family collected, and it made me realise just how big London 2012 was - it was huge! That was a Games that I will never, ever forget and it was definitely my highlight.
I hated Rio and I hated everything about it.
I'm a Scouts ambassador and I help out with dwarf sports.
I wear adult sizes but chop off the arms and legs.
My mum took me to swimming lessons when I was very young, four years old.
To be honest, I've not really felt like a flagbearer for women's sport.
Watching Nyree Lewis get her medal in the 100 backstroke inspired me to want to go to a Paralympics and it just went on from there.
I don't watch my Rio races back. I'll look at my London 2012 races a lot. But not Rio.
In China they don't mind getting their cameras out, but I try to go with the flow. In countries where there is not so much disability visible on the streets, they want to know who you are and what you are doing.
I'm lucky I've been able to take control, as an older athlete, and pick who I work with.
Growing up, I was aware of being a dwarf but I felt I could do anything.
I think what I'm most proud of about myself away from the pool, is being OK on my own.
A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.
I like Drake, I like Rihanna, I like Beyonce, I like Mumford and Sons, and Coldplay.
The whole nation thinks I should be winning, winning, winning all the time and that's a lot to take on my shoulders.
Sometimes I'll get reminded that I promote Paralympic sport and Paralympics GB. Yes, I have a role but I don't feel like an idol.
I love the ocean and I'm passionate about conservation and the environment.
I've achieved my dream of getting a Paralympic gold medal and I'm very lucky that I've been to three Games where I've come away with five gold medals.
Sport is a great thing to get involved with, it's not just fitness but it also gets your competitive side out.
I think it's really important to show people that there's nothing different about us; especially as athletes - we train as hard as the Olympians.
My plan of going to Tokyo has gone out of the window, but I was able to spend three to four months with my family and I've never been able to do that before.
You're never going to lose your sport. It's like riding a bike to be honest.
I'm a big, big fan of cheesecake, so I love baking that.
My philosophy is that there is no point in being sad or hating who you are.
I didn't enjoy Rio. My team-mates were great but some of the staff made it a really negative place.
I didn't just swim when I was younger. I did ballet, horse riding, everything. I was very active.
As an older woman now, I feel the pressure more, I feel all those different aspects, I'm more aware of that. Whereas as a 13-year-old, as a 17-year-old, you just do swimming, you're just doing it as sport where you don't really think of all the outside bits.
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