Tanni Grey-Thompson Quotes

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : July 26, 1969

I think athletes need to be better at portraying themselves and promoting themselves. You can't just sit and wait for the media to come to you.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

My husband Ian and I decided to try for a baby after the Sydney Paralympics, and I got pregnant quite quickly. But I hated every minute of being pregnant.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

You know they say that pregnant women glow and their hair's wonderful? Well I never got to that bit. I just remember feeling sick or actually puking up all the time.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

When I got pregnant quite a few people said to me, 'have you really thought about what you're doing?' I was 32 and an obsessive athlete, so of course I knew what I was doing.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I had Carys by Caesarean for medical reasons. I've got narrow hips and I'm a bit twisted.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

My parents were amazing because they just did not tolerate discrimination and way before we talked about medical model or inclusion or any of that, they did not know any of that stuff, but they just knew that the right thing to do was to educate and include me in society.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I remember trying to go to the cinema with my friends, so I must have been nine or 10, and being told I could not go in because I did not have an adult with me and my mum sending me back with my friends, because we had left, and mum going 'go back, go back, I am not taking you home, go and tell them that you have never spontaneously combusted.'

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What is great about being in sport was when you won, you got a gold medal and you knew you had won.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I'd have a competition over anything. Absolutely anything, I didn't care what it was. I think that's why my parents decided that sport was quite a good thing for me to do, because it calmed me down and gave me something to channel that competitive spirit into.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

When I was young, I didn't see disabled people on the streets, and it wasn't because they weren't there. It was because they were locked away.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

When I started, nobody knew what the Paralympics were.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

Disability sport came about largely because of exclusion, because mainstream sport didn't want disabled people to be part of it.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I love recycling but my husband, who's an industrial chemist, says we shouldn't use any of the products that require recycling.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I love politics. If you're not involved, part of the debate, you can't influence anything.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

At school I was sent for an IQ test every year to check that I was able to stay in mainstream education.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

When I was competing we were training 15 times a week.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

My passions are sport, women in sport and disabled people, and they kind of end up not being political, so I can put a bit of a different spin on it.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I've had many challenges in life and sport but going into the House of Lords is probably the greatest ever.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I start to giggle when I hear someone call me Baroness Grey-Thompson.

Tanni Grey-Thompson

I have this dream of living in an immaculate house but it never seems to happen.

Tanni Grey-Thompson