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" 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. "
Late
Food
Thought
" All I want is to keep boxing for Great Britain and inspire others. "
Inspire
Boxing
Others
" Anger is an unnecessary emotion. Loads of stuff in life can trigger it, but what matters is how you react. I choose not to react. "
Anger
You
React
" As a kid, I was always picky about food; if it didn't 'look right,' I wouldn't eat it. "
Always
Right
Look
" At the 2012 Olympics, there was a nutritionist in the food hall telling us, 'Eat that. And eat that.' After winning my gold, I went to McDonald's for chicken nuggets and a strawberry milkshake, but that was just for the hell of it. I don't feel hungry after a match, to be honest. "
Gold
Winning
Chicken
" Boxing is like chess. You encourage your opponent to make mistakes so you can capitalise on it. People think you get in the ring and see the red mist, but it's not about aggression. Avoiding getting knocked out is tactical. "
Chess
Think
You
" Even though I am a woman boxer, I am not just inspiring women; I hope I am inspiring boys as well. "
Just
I Am
Well
" Everybody wants that spot: everybody wants to beat Nicola Adams. Everybody wants to be the Olympic champion; everybody wants to beat the Olympic champion. It's made me train that much harder and stay that much more focused. I guess, in a way, I've got them to thank for keeping me motivated and focused on the job I need to do. "
Champion
Train
Me
" Everyone is beatable on the right day. "
Everyone
Right
Day
" 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. "
Go
Ring
Victory
" Everywhere I go, people ask me for photos and autographs, saying I inspired them to start training. Boris Johnson says his sons started boxing after seeing me - how cool is that? "
Go
Training
Saying
" I'd love to be the Ali of women's boxing, to retire as the greatest. "
Greatest
Boxing
Retire
" If I've got an event coming up, I might buy myself a new suit. I prefer wearing suits to dresses - I reckon I've got about 15. "
Suits
Dresses
Event
" 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.' "
Inspiration
Old
Jungle
" I love shopping, but I only really have time to do it online. "
Only
Online
Love
" I'm good at clearing things out. If I haven't worn something for a while, I'll give it away to charity. "
Away
Things
Charity
" I'm like a 'comeback kid' - you can't keep me down for long! "
Kid
You
Me
" 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. "
More
Women
Professional
" 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. "
Me
School
Loved
" 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. "
Moving
Think
Happy
" 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. "
Inspire
Life
Sports
" It is really important that we get more women doing exercise and being active, and those that have taken up boxing or boxing training will definitely find that it has a really positive impact on their health, fitness and well-being. "
Positive
Health
Fitness
" 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. "
Every Day
Myself
Train
" I want to be the European, Olympic, Commonwealth and world champion. I want the full set. "
World
Champion
Full
" I went into boxing, and I'm bisexual, and I still achieved and performed at the highest level, and I came away with gold and made history, so with that said, anything is possible. "
Said
History
Boxing
" I would be more wary of boxing a pretty boxer than I would one that looks like they have been bashed up a bit because the pretty boxer obviously doesn't get hit - so that means they must be quite good! "
Boxing
Looks
More
" I wouldn't call myself a feminist. I am just me. I like boxing and acting and doing my charity work. "
Myself
I Am
Me
" Just imagine if women's sport was on the TV all the time - how many more female athletes we would have? "
Women
Time
More
" Muhammad Ali meant everything to me. He inspired me to box after watching re-runs of him winning a gold medal in the Olympics and being a world champion. "
Him
Gold
Champion
" 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? "
Care
Mind
People
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