Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Kadeena Cox - Page 2

Once you kind of get past doing the Yorkshire Championships, and the Northern Championships, and you go to the British Champs it's like, 'oh wow, diversity!'

One of the things that really does annoy me is just comments on my hair. Like 'your hair's not tidy,' or 'Ooh, what's this?' Just little comments that I just think are so inappropriate. Sometimes I'm just like, 'Is it really necessary?' But you know, as a black female, you do learn to just brush these things off, which isn't the way it should be.

People don't understand the classification process and they also don't understand a condition like MS and how it has different effects on different people. Neurological conditions are all so different because we don't know what people have gone through and how their brains adapt to it all and you can't assess everything with the naked eye.

It would be nice to do a winter and a summer Olympics in the same cycle.

You just have to have heart, passion, determination and self-belief.

There are times when I'm training and I literally feel like I'm about to pass out because I haven't eaten or what I have eaten hasn't been anything that's going to benefit me.

Sprinting is my stress relief, something to do to relax. I don't know what I would do without it.

One of the key things that I learnt on 'MasterChef' was time management.

I want more gold medals. I only got two in Rio so it would be nice to make it four.

I spend a lot of time thinking and worrying about fatigue. It is the thing I struggle with the most.

I've been so close on so many occasions and had so many horrendous injuries. You go from hamstring tear to hamstring tear and achilles problems and then you get MS! But you've got to keep going, which I did and I've got the kit and a world record and the world title.

I love the buzz of racing and being competitive and trying to push myself to be the best that I can be.

I watched 'Coach Carter,' it's like the best film ever!

I like a challenge and I like being able to prove to me and everyone else that I can do crazy things - even with a dodgy knee.

I won't do anything rash. But I struggle with dystonia, or uncontrolled movement, and I know that yoga and Pilates can help with this. So can hydrotherapy. It's part of being a physiotherapist, I guess.

Sometimes I feel like you have to be a different person - you kind of morph into that person that fits in.

I had the world against me. I was told I shouldn't be doing sport and that I wouldn't go to the Paralympics. I've had so many barriers.

2018 is a big year for me with the Commonwealths in April and my university dissertation due in May so a World Championships in March would be difficult.

Unfortunately, I'm heat intolerant. I tend not to go in heat, I avoid the bath, I have lukewarm showers - and now I am throwing myself into the heat of Dubai and trying to run.

Before Rio, I had never been at the top of the velodrome track but now I train from the top of the track.

I feel that people think it's a really easy walk in the park - I just turn up and I'm always on top form. But the journey to that point is always a struggle.

With the athletes, there's a lot of diversity. But when you look at the management, coaching and the boards, there's not that much diversity there. I think it's diversity within those roles that's needed.

I was so much smaller before I had MS so I really struggle day to day to look in the mirror. I don't feel I recognize myself because I've never been as big.

In 2016 I was fresh and raw and it was grit and determination which got me to the gold medal. Nobody really knew me and what I was capable of.

One of the reason I did two sports because I wanted to do something special or different.

I love bobsleigh.

I am very research-driven, especially when it comes to my body.

When people say there are people who are faking it, if I had a choice I wouldn't want to have a disability.

I've had a lot of up-and-down times.

MS is so poorly understood. I change day to day, not year to year, so I've no idea how I will be by the end of another full Olympic cycle. Come Tokyo 2020, I don't know whether I'll even be able to do one sport, let alone two.

I want to learn how to ride a bike properly - not like a runner.

I would never have picked up cycling had it not been for my disability because it just wasn't something I saw. You see someone riding past in their Lycra and it's normally white, middle-class males and I never would have seen myself in that position, being an elite cyclist.

There are times when I'm on the athletics track when I can't control my movement or I'm not able to maintain my hip stability and I am wobbling all over the place.

I've been out with injury, health struggles and I've really struggled with my mental health, so to be able to get back and be on the start line has been a challenge. I'm excited just to be there, but obviously I expect a lot of myself and I'm pretty sure other people expect me to come out and be able to still dominate.

I want to be in Tokyo. I want to defend my titles and I want to change these medals into gold medals.

I started my cycling academy to try and get more people from a BAME background into cycling.

I'm not very good at making decisions.

I take 18 to 19 tablets a day, plus an injection every other day. I get side-effects from some of the medication that aren't ideal. Plus, I hate having to inject myself. It's painful and it creates a few dramas.

Initially it was a journey about one girl who wanted to go to the Paralympics but over the two years it has become something I was doing for everyone else. The reason I wanted to do it so badly was so I could stand here and show it can be done even if you have setbacks.

I have a sports science degree.