Quotes from Kadeena Cox

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.

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.

I'm a bit disappointed British Bobsleigh haven't yet been in touch.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I finished my degree and realized I had a lot of free time on my hands.

I get recognized pretty much wherever I go now which is totally alien.

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.

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

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

I look back and I have always been big and curvy. Our family all have big arms, bigger legs, bigger hips and bum. That's just the way we're built.

The only thing that's difficult is sometimes it's nice to be able to separate your home life from training life.

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.