Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Ellie Simmonds - Page 2

I'm quite shy at school.

People expect you to get golds and it puts so much more pressure on you and if you don't it's like you have let yourself down. It is nerve-racking.

My school have been so supportive in the balance between my sport and my studying, ever since I won the two golds in Beijing.

It can feel a bit surreal. Sometimes you're talking to famous people and you think, 'Oh gosh, I'm talking to Lewis Hamilton.'

I'm just going into London to enjoy it as much as I can. Enjoy the experience and just swim the best that I can on the day.

I feel really honoured to be in the Walk of Fame in Birmingham with so many great people already like Ozzy Osbourne.

I lived in Swansea Marina and was a minute's walk from the beach. I used to love going to Mumbles and visiting Gower with its fantastic beaches like Langland, Oxwich and Caswell.

Saturday is usually my social day to go out with my friends for food or shopping.

I have grown up in a positive household.

Going into Beijing I was like 'what's a Paralympics?'

People come up to me and say, 'You're that swimmer.'

I love the 400m.

Having all that experience, and that success as well, at a Paralympics was just amazing but I don't really remember much from Beijing, it was quite a blur.

Swimming is only half of your life, so you have to think about what you're going to do afterwards.

In Beijing the emotion built and built. I was at a Paralympics and I was so nervous. When I achieved my goal all that emotion came out.

Being at home gives me such a big buzz and just makes me want to perform.

It's important to give kids a variety of sports. Everyone is an individual, everyone is different but there is a sport out there for everyone.

I'm studying psychology at Loughborough and there are so many sportspeople here - you actually see top athletes walking around - but people see them all the time, so there's no special treatment.

I would have loved to sneak off and watch some of the horse events at the Paralympics and I know Lee Pearson, who's the Olympic gold medallist in para-equestrianism, but because I was competing in the pool I had to watch it on TV.

I have a coach, a physio and a psychologist.

Swimming outside the pool is scary. I don't like not knowing what's underneath me - it's quite dark in lakes. I swam in the sea in Australia around the Great Barrier Reef, though, and that was incredible because you could see exactly what was underneath you.

Sunday is my day of rest, which usually includes a lie-in, a pyjama day or just being with my family.

I was really keen on horse-riding, too, but I knew I had to give it up to give more time to swimming.

I feel I cope with pressure quite well.

I can't do the whole going-out-all-night thing. I can't even stay up until 10 P. M., I just fall asleep. My friends know that we have to meet at an earlier time.

Yes, my body is not a machine and I do get those moments when I think 'Why am I doing this?' I think it's common among athletes and I'm sure people do experience it at work as well.

I made my first World Championships team at 12.

I didn't really come on the scene nationally until 2008.

I was 8 when I started swimming training, but it wasn't until I was 10 when it became more serious so over the next few years I slowly developed a better understanding of my diet.

As a swimmer I know how important it is to be fit, healthy and eat well.

I love who I am and I am glad that I have dwarfism because I think my body is strong and beautiful.

We had a trampoline in the garden that I used to play on lots which was great exercise.

You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.

Tuna pasta bake is one of my favourites, its quick and easy to make when I'm busy training.

Our parents were very generous, and they always encouraged us to find something we enjoyed and really get into it.

I've thought about doing sports psychology at university, but it's quite hard.

In Beijing when the Chinese athletes had a massive roar that gave me a buzz pretending they were shouting for me.

Coming into London having the experience of Beijing is really good.

I'm very competitive.