The roar of the crowd when you come out for a final is like nothing else: when 15,000 people are cheering you, a lot of adrenaline goes right through you. – Adam Peaty
There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing. – Adam Peaty
To win Olympic gold has been a dream for me for seven or eight years now, so it was amazing to actually achieve that. – Adam Peaty
For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we’ve been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed. – Adam Peaty
My coach and I thought I could swim a 57.3 if I executed the perfect race, but I did even better than that. – Adam Peaty
I believe I can get faster because I have trained for it, and I’m doing faster times I’ve ever done in training. – Adam Peaty
I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum’s hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower. – Adam Peaty
This medal goes to show that you don’t always have to have the best facilities, the best organisation, the best of everything to achieve. – Adam Peaty
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. – Adam Peaty
I’ve become the hunted. I’m enjoying that. It’s better to be the hunted than the hunter. – Adam Peaty
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. – Adam Peaty
I like Jaykae. He’s a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre’s album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then. – Adam Peaty
When you take the world record, a lot of people are going to go out there to get you, really. I kind of enjoy that. I like being chased. – Adam Peaty
Nothing means more to me than racing for my country, the Queen, the Royal Family, and the people back home that support me. – Adam Peaty
Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven’t grown up! – Adam Peaty
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
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. – Adam Peaty
