Olympics Quotes by Claressa Shields

9 Olympics quotes by Claressa Shields

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Claressa Shields’s Olympic commentary, though concise, reflects the tenacity of a champion boxer stepping onto a global stage. These few lines give a quick glimpse of how she sees resilience, preparation, and the fight for excellence.

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I slept with my gold medal.

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I still really haven't sat down and said 'yeah, I'm ranked No. 1 in the world and I'm an Olympic Gold Medalist.'…

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I have a world championship medal from 2014, but I can't find it. So I'm missing one. I think it's at my…

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I trained my whole life for the Olympics. I didn't have a childhood, I really couldn't go to the beach with my…

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At the Olympics, for those eight minutes of each fight, all that attention was on me. Either the crowd is with you…

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The only thing that me and Muhammad Ali have in common is that we are both Olympic gold medalists and both very…

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I have a lot of cousins that I don't know. But I think that happens to any celebrity. I wonder how many…

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When I was 16, coming up through now at 24, it was so much I thought I had to change about myself.…

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To be honest, I already felt that I was going to win the gold medal, but with school being so hard I…

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I be thinking sometimes, maybe I'm just too hard on people. Maybe I want too much. But no, I don't. All my granny did…

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I train like an animal in the ring. There's nobody that can beat me because I train hard for everybody.

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Flint is not a hopeless city and I mean that.

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