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.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

In 1938, I was given a one-year teaching appointment, which was sensational for British universities. This was converted into the usual four-year contract for an Assistant Lecturer in 1939.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.