British - Athlete | December 28, 1994 -
I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their third and fourth and probably last Olympics. So there's more pressure on them to perform. I've still got a whole future ahead of me. I am not even the Olympic champ.
Adam Peaty
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Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that.
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To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that.
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It's great to see that kind of support online. For people to be messaging myself, my nan and the rest of my family, all the support has been great.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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