Katie Taylor

Sometimes, the plans in your heart aren't God's plan.

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.

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.

It is so important that our federation stands by our athletes.

I want to be the first Conor Maynard. I think I want to have a successful career that is unique in its own way.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.