Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kadeena Cox
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British athlete Kadeena Cox.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
On the weekend of the Olympic trials, I lashed out at someone I'm really close to. I've lashed out at my mum, my siblings. It's so hard when all you want to do is compete, and your body's just denying you. But without my family, I'd be nothing.
My mum at my competitions is the most embarrassing person in the world. She just screams so loud.
I wanted to empower other people and prove even with invisible conditions like mine that you can achieve things if you put your mind to it and work hard. So I definitely see myself as a role model in some weird and wonderful way.
The more I'm in the public eye and I get opportunities to speak out about the condition the better. So many people don't understand the condition, they don't understand the struggles we have to deal with.
You shouldn't have to accept being seen as lesser or discriminated against because of your skin.
I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.
I have MS and am heat intolerant so it is tricky. It is affecting my spasms and affects my speech - which is annoying because I like talking.
I've never had a kit sponsor. I get kit sent to me by a company but they wouldn't sign me on a proper deal. It's frustrating.
I have a watch with all the calories I burn so I can track everything I do.
I get recognized pretty much wherever I go now which is totally alien.
The only thing that's difficult is sometimes it's nice to be able to separate your home life from training life.
I have a 50 per cent chance of still being able to compete as an able-bodied athlete. But if not, I will compete as a paralympian.
It's hard to get into something if you don't see someone like you who has done it.
It's been tricky trying to deal with managing my eating, having so many people around me and so many eyes on me, it's pushed me to do more extreme things which is frustrating for me.
I'll stay on my bike until I've burnt a certain amount of calories or made sure I'm in negative calories for the end of the day.
The majority of people scrape their less dense hair back into a bobble or a braid, whereas I actually have massive challenges getting my hair into a helmet. Going into Rio, trying to get my 'fro into a helmet was a big issue.
Having sport allowed me to forget about the ups and downs of my condition and think about a set goal, which was to become a Paralympic champion, to become a world champion.
You have a dream, and you hope you can help someone. But to actually find out that you did that, it gives you a warm feeling inside.
I want to be able to do the Olympics and then do the Paralympics after.
I set up the KC Academy to get more people from a black background into cycling.
That's my dream, to empower people, because there should be no reason that the colour of your skin should stop you from doing everything you want to do.
I've gone from being an 11.9sec runner to being a 13.5sec runner which mentally is quite hard.
I went into hospital with left-side weakness and speech problems and was diagnosed with a stroke. And then I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
I have a quite a good understanding of the human body, but I feel like I've got two different people in my head. One of them is saying, 'You shouldn't be eating this' and the other is saying, 'you know you need to.' It's such a challenge.
I'm a bit disappointed British Bobsleigh haven't yet been in touch.
I never wanted to give in to my condition. My life changed a lot but I didn't want it to change my dreams or goals.
I had really had tendonitis in both Achilles. You can run through it with one leg, but not two.
I get slightly annoyed if I've got bushy eyebrows or I haven't got any make-up on, but apart from that I love chatting to new people.
There are days when my legs don't work, so I have to be in my wheelchair.
I had only been cycling for a year before I went to Rio.
The colour of my skin determines what opportunities I have; the colour of my skin says there's only room for one or two of us to be accepted in a certain job; the colour of my skin has dictated everything I've done in my whole life.
I'm just like 'mother, please,' She always videos and the video is not of me, it's of the sky or the ground because she's always jumping around. Mum is not very good at videoing or cheering.
I don't remember what normal eating is.
I watched the London Games as my coach had athletes in there. I saw the impact that the Paralympics had on the country and the world.
If you don't see someone, you don't think you can be it. People can see me and go on and do better than me.
To be recognized by the Queen, it's just wow, thank you.
I have my turbo bike at home, so I can do high cadence stuff and interval sessions on there, and then I get out on the road once a week to do a 50km ride.
I like to overfill my life.
I think as an athlete, especially in a sport like athletics, we don't wear very much on the track, so you have to look the part.
I would never have looked at cycling as something I could do had I not got ill and lived in Manchester where British Cycling is.
I used to not plan ahead because of the condition I've got. But I've put that at the back of mind and not let MS control my life.
For me its a struggle because I don't have a visible disability and a lot of companies want to tick a box to say they've got a partnership with a disabled athlete. But if the rest of the world can't see that they're disabled then they don't think it's worth it.
I've had a great coach, John Norfolk, who has taken me from a novice to a great cyclist.
I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.
I had an injury that just dug away at me. I would spend every track session crying, attempting to run and breaking down when I couldn't.
My mum's my rock.
I want to have my own neurophysiological clinic, combining my love of sport with my knowledge of physio that can benefit people and help them be rehabilitated to close to their former selves.
I think I can get back to a place where I'm more in control and there are small blips, as opposed to massive wobbles every two seconds.
I've always loved 'Bake Off,' I've always watched it and it's just one of those things that everyone loves and you watch it with your family.
There are days when I'm spasming to a point where I can't even push my wheelchair because my arms aren't working and my legs aren't working.
I think I was quite abnormal, in that it took me all of a day to get over the fact that I had MS.
In athletics there are so many great elite athletes who look like me, so it was easy to fall into.
I totally expect there to be some young girl or boy sat at home thinking 'I want to be like Kadeena Cox,' and then going on to better everything I've done.
I tried not to cry on the podium, I tried to enjoy this moment. I did enjoy Rio but was trying to go well that I didn't really, it's a bit overwhelming.
I tried put everything I had into doing something and proving that MS wasn't going to hold me back and kissing goodbye to MS.
I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.
I want to open a clinic of my open mainly looking at pediatrics and neurological conditions and incorporating my love of sport and physiotherapy knowledge together.
I was horrified that my life was going to revolve around not being independent.
I look back and I have always been big and curvy. Our family all have big arms, bigger legs, bigger hips and bum. That's just the way we're built.
I've always been a sprinter, I'm muscular. If you put me next to the average sprinter, I would fit in a lot more. But against the Paralympic side, I always feel really big.
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