Words matter. These are the best Nicola Adams Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I’d love to be the Ali of women’s boxing, to retire as the greatest.
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.
All I want is to keep boxing for Great Britain and inspire others.
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.
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.’
As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn’t ‘look right,’ I wouldn’t eat it.
I love shopping, but I only really have time to do it online.
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.
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.
Everyone is beatable on the right day.
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.
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?
I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set.
I’m like a ‘comeback kid’ – you can’t keep me down for long!
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.
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.
I’m good at clearing things out. If I haven’t worn something for a while, I’ll give it away to charity.
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.’
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Our boxing is not like the men’s. It’s more thoughtful, more technical. It’s not just, ‘Get in there and hurt someone.’
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.
Just imagine if women’s sport was on the TV all the time – how many more female athletes we would have?
