Adam Gemili Quotes
b. 1993 England
Adam Ahmed Gemili (born 6 October 1993) is a British retired sprinter. He is now an athletics coach.
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Dreams change and you have to be realistic. It’s just crazy how life can completely change but I’m so happy I found myself in another sport.
In football, you can sometimes get away with an off-day but now there’s nobody else to put the work in if you don’t.
I was a defender, centre-back or right-back, and always played as the last man because nobody was going to get past me.
I've always been close and I know I believe, if I can get myself in shape, I can run with the best.
I basically quit the sport, I didn't have any interest, I didn't enjoy getting up for training.
I sat down with my family and friends and we decided I've still got a lot more I want to give in this sport.
One of the hardest things to adapt to was going from a team-based sport to an individual sport.
I hated it and that was because of all the stressful stuff which was going on.
I was going back to football. I reached out to a few clubs and they said, 'Come and do some training with us.
I can't say the clubs. There was a Championship club, there was a League One club, no Premier League clubs yet but maybe one day.
I was thinking the other day about how everything has worked out and how nuts it is that I’m competing in a completely different sport now.
You go from being in the changing room with team-mates, living and training with them every day, to a situation where if you don’t get on the line and run then nobody else is going to run for you.
Football was what I came from originally, so that was one of the options for me.
I'm finding that love again. I don't make any money out of the sport, I'm not sponsored, but I love it. I've been in the sport a long time and there's still a lot I want to achieve. We'll get to Paris [Olympics] and then after Paris we'll reassess.
Hopefully I can pick up a few medals, have a good championships and it will set me up nicely for the Olympics next year in Tokyo, which is the big one.
I was dabbling in athletics a little, not a huge amount, but I ended up taking the decision in January 2012 to completely walk away from football and pursue athletics full-time.
I was noticeably the quickest in the Academy and having speed really helps you in football, as long as you have a good touch, can pass and tackle, get stuck in and give it some heart. Speed is much harder to teach so it was always something the coaches utilised in my game.