Top 50 Kadeena Cox Quotes

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 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.

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.

I don’t remember what normal eating is.

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 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 had only been cycling for a year before I went to Rio.

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!’

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.

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.

I have a watch with all the calories I burn so I can track everything I do.

I have a sports science degree.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

My mum at my competitions is the most embarrassing person in the world. She just screams so loud.

In athletics there are so many great elite athletes who look like me, so it was easy to fall into.

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

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

I’ve had a lot of up-and-down times.

I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life.

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

I set up the KC Academy to get more people from a black background into cycling.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

I’ve had a great coach, John Norfolk, who has taken me from a novice to a great cyclist.

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.

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.

To be recognized by the Queen, it’s just wow, thank you.

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

I’m not very good at making decisions.

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.

You shouldn’t have to accept being seen as lesser or discriminated against because of your skin.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.