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I would love to be able to speak my own language and maybe have an interview in Irish, maybe after my fights.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Interview
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I'd love to have a chance to fight in the World Series Boxing for women, but nothing has been done about that.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Boxing
World Series
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I've a great group of people, a great family behind me all the way, all the time. You cannot underestimate that.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Great Family
Underestimate
Family Time Great
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As long as I still feel a passion for the sport and preparing for these big competitions, I will carry on fighting.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Fighting
Passion
Preparing
Carry
Competitions
Sport
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Age is a chronological number. That's all. There is plenty of time for my life afterwards. I'm still a young woman.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Plenty
Life Time Age
Afterwards
Chronological
Number
Young Woman
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The heaviest I've ever been is 65 kilos. That was during my Leaving Cert when I was just studying and eating chocolate.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Heaviest
Studying
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I want to tell girls, it's not about make-up and how you look that's important; you are so much more than how you look.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Girl
Important
Tell
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It is frustrating, but all I can do is just keep winning, and hopefully, people will stand up and take notice eventually.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Frustrating
Notice
Stand Up
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I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
History
Boxers
Female
History Books
Path
Right Path
Greatest
Books
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I owe so much to my dad and what he has done for me. And it's hard work doing what he has done, so he's entitled to a break.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Entitled
Hard Work
Work Dad Hard Work
Work Dad Me
Owe
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The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Boxing
Fights
Promoter
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It's great to be boxing a local boxer. The atmosphere is always fantastic. I love those fights. I really relish those fights.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Atmosphere
Boxing
Fantastic
Relish
Love Great Always
Fights
Boxer
Local
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The best boxers don't always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won't happen to me.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Bad Day
Boxers
Olympics
Please
God Best Always
God Best Me
Easily
Qualify
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It's important to have a healthy balanced diet but not to get too bogged down about it. It's important to enjoy your food, too.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Diet
Balanced
Balanced Diet
Enjoy
Healthy
Food Diet Your
Bogged
Down
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When you're so consistent, people have to stand up and take notice. I don't think people recognise or praise consistency enough.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Consistency
Consistent
Enough
Praise
Recognise
Stand
Take
Notice
Stand Up
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I know MMA isn't for everyone. It is a combat sport; some people don't like watching it, but it is entertainment for some people.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Combat
Mma
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I always go into a fight thinking the decision is going to be fair, and I relish these fights where the atmosphere is so fantastic.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Atmosphere
Relish
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You have to make sure you have the right people around you to get the right fights, and you're not guaranteed to get the best fights.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Fights
Guaranteed
Right People
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I'm a huge fan of Conor McGregor, an incredible athlete. What he has done for MMA is phenomenal; he has been a great supporter of me.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Athlete
Mma
Phenomenal
Supporter
Great Done Me
Great Me Done
Huge Fan
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I always come into these competitions hoping to come away with a gold medal. I won't relax until I have the gold medal around my neck.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Gold
Medal
Relax
Neck
Competitions
Gold Medal
Hoping
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Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Fought
Title
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It's ridiculous having the pros in an amateur sport, but at the same time, there's a lot of pros who are going to struggle over three rounds.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Rounds
Pros
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It's the training that's the hardest. It's the preparation. The months and months of preparation that nobody really sees, that's the hardest part.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Preparation
Hardest Part
Sees
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I have a lot of confidence in myself, and I love that challenge as well. I love going to every competition as the favourite. It's something I relish.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Confidence
Competition
Favourite
Relish
Love Myself Confidence
Challenge
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I don't get complacent, because I know if you slack off, you're going to be found out. This is international boxing, and every fight is a tough fight.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Boxing
Complacent
Slack
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I don't feel much pressure at all. I have great family support, and they take a lot of pressure off me. They help to control media and public interest.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Great Family
Public Interest
Family Great Me
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When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Boxing
Catch
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I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Male
Dominated
Exactly What
Pioneer
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I'm in a privileged position, but I still feel like the best is yet to come, and people still haven't seen the best of me yet, and that is so exciting for me.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Position
Privileged
Best Me People
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People say, 'You will be 30 years old; you're too old. You'll get your nose broke,' say dad's a pushy dad. You hear stupid things and put them out of your mind.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Broke
Pushy
Stupid
Nose
People Say
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I became number one just after the World Championships in India. I was very young then, and I remember it was just a great feeling, my first World Championship.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Championship
First World
Great Feeling
World Championship
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There are so many career opportunities out there now for young women, and it's great to have the opportunity to encourage them to get involved in these new careers.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Careers
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With amateur boxing, you're just entered into a competition. And to be the best, you've got to beat the best. You're not waiting around to get these fights organised.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Boxing
Organised
Waiting
Amateur
Fights
Beat
Entered
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I love playing for Ireland, and I love soccer, but when it comes down to it, I would choose boxing as my number one sport, as I'd miss it too much if I wasn't involved.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Boxing
Ireland
Soccer
My Number One
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There's not a lot of positive role models of women in newspapers and magazines. I think it puts pressure on girls. They think that the image put out, it's the way you have to look.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Magazines
Models
Newspapers
Role Models
Puts
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My training diet can be quite strict when I'm coming up to competition; it's a weight-making sport, of course. But I eat quite healthily anyway, and it's less strict when out of competition.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Diet
Competition
Strict
Training
Eat
Quite
Anyway
Less
Coming
Course
Sport
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I've boxed many people in their own backyard plenty of times - in China, I boxed a Chinese girl in the final of the world championships, and I've boxed Russians before in their home nation as well.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
China
Plenty
Home World People
Backyard
Boxed
Championships
Nation
Russians
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We do the weigh-in, then go for a walk, then have breakfast, then I listen to worship songs on my iPod because I'm a Christian. I always read the same Bible verses, too. We do the same warm-up a lot of the time as well. But, I have no superstitions before a fight.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Bible
Breakfast
Superstitions
Verses
Worship
Time Always Walk
Warm-Up
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I'm honoured and delighted to be named the 'Irish Times'/Irish Sports Council Sportswoman of the Year 2014. This has been an amazing year for me and for Irish women in sport, and I would like to congratulate all the finalists in their respective fields who have excelled at major sporting events.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Council
Delighted
Fields
Named
Congratulate
Excelled
Honoured
Respective
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It's such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christianity to Ireland, and we celebrate St. Patrick's day every single year, but there's very few practising Catholics or practising Christians.
Katie Taylor / Olympic Athlete
Celebrate
Christianity
Ireland
Brought
Practising
Saints
Scholars
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