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Denise Lewis

lines on the record: 56
first: 2012-02-05
most recent: 2012-02-05
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Oh it's got to be The pack of sex in the city DVDs I love those girls of sex in the city I will have lots of hours of laughter and joy I'm looking forward to it”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I do, I think I feel a connection because of her resilience and, you know, being a presenter in America as a black female that's just risen completely to the top does resonate.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We are going to listen to Mariah Kerry. We're going to put on our dancing shoes and get down to the funky beat of it's like that. It reminds me of my girlfriends. Although I'm an only child, I have fantastic girlfriends. Mariah Carey is a guilty pleasure that we love to dance to and here it is.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think she really is an amazing woman because I've witnessed her change almost grow as a person from this very angry young woman who felt that she was her against the world trying to bring up her baby to the most incredible giving grandmother and happy woman and I'm very proud of the things that she's achieved.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he's no longer with us. He passed away back in 1998, so didn't even see my Sydney performance. But at the same time, I sort of respect him for not trying to get involved in my life as my career started to develop, but I'm sure he was watching because he very much knew who I was.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I have missed out on things because men do bring a different perspective on things in the household, but as a kid I didn't know any differently, so you just go with what you've got and accept what you've got, and I think, if anything, I would just have liked someone to be able to give my mum a little bit more support and that she didn't have to quite work as hard as she did.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There wasn't, and my mother walked me down the aisle, which was a really special moment for me, having not had a father in my life. She absolutely adores my husband, and you talk about being ready for love. I think really I was so ready.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Number seven is an artist called India I beautiful, beautiful vocals and this track in particular was the one that I walked down the aisle to marry my wonderful husband Stephen. This is called Ready for Love.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think with hindsight training with Eckart, coming back from having a baby, which is traumatic in its own right, to then give myself another dose of stress and trauma is possibly quite foolish, but this is what the stubborn gene does to you. You just think I'm going to do it and I don't care what.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Lauren sort of has me a little bit on a pedestal, but I try to make sure that she has a very balanced view of her mother, to let her know that I've made absolute mistakes and I don't always get things right. I think it's important that she understands that. And I also encourage her to try other things, you know, speech and drama, a little bit of music, to find where her real passions lie and where her strengths lie.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“At least three people deep, so I'm not sort of jostled to take part. I did do one. Did you? Yes, for my son's school. It was a... Balancing a beanbag on your head, and I thought okay I'll do it, and I started off, but you had to walk. So this woman started challenging me a little bit, and I thought, okay, so we were both waddling down this stretch of grass with the beanbag on our head, and I was thinking, Denise, how shameful the competitive juice is. You just can't turn them off, can you?”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, because I think I feel very privileged to have led the life I have and I'm satisfied. I'm satisfied with my accomplishments. I try to look at that medal and say, you know what, you gave it everything and you deserve it.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just felt like who am I? What do I do? How will I call myself there's the worst moment for me was when you have to fill out any form and they put your occupation down and I was used to just kind of tap my fingers thinking well what am I strange sensation.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, my next track is an interesting one and it's a very recent choice for me because it just highlights the joys of motherhood for me. I have three beautiful children and my middle one thinks he is the fifth member of JLS. He loves this band. He loves the boys. It's JLS and she makes me wanna.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I felt very let down very much by the British authorities and by the British media to a large extent because it felt like a personal attack. It was like a witch hunt almost.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“How I didn't, looking back, God only knows because I had this immense scrutiny from the British press. No one pointed the finger at me or suggested any drug use about me. It was just. Why would you make this decision to train with this man? I felt at the time I didn't have many options. He was a good coach, and I wanted to use his services.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was living in Belgium, Lawrence's father is Belgian, so I was living with him, training in Belgium, commuting to Germany, but still having my flat in central London. I was driving a lot on the roads, just trying to keep things going.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and I mean at the time I did not know about his past. But when someone presented me a dossier of sort of Eckhart's past, I really had to sit down and make a decision whether I'm going to let someone's sort of tainted past jeopardize my future of getting back into the sport.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I was an athlete it's something that you are and I've felt that there was still more to give. You know, I used to have on the top of my training schedule that I have two Olympic gold medals in me and I'm going to do all that I can to get them.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was sort of mutual. He wasn't happy with me. He felt that I was not going to be as focused as I used to be, that I was allowing other things to take over, I wasn't concentrating, which I felt at the time was very harsh because I was still committed to my sport, but life had thrown me a different challenge and I wanted to meet that challenge and have my child.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did I spoke to some of my closest girlfriends, my mother, obviously, and absolutely my coach Charles at the time who, when I did tell him I was pregnant, was He was disappointed, to say the least, and he really felt that it was lousy timing. Yeah, that did take me. I sort of expected it because he was very much about performance and he still felt that our job was undone.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Why, I mentioned my children earlier on, my oldest daughter is called Lauren, spelt exactly like this next artist. Lauren Hill, the track is Zion, and it just reminds me of the moment that I gave birth to my daughter.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I do, but not as much as obviously I used to, but if I can do two or three times a week of forty five minutes to an hour, and that would be using the Microsoft trainer or cycling on my road bike, or my rowing machine and circuits, then I'm happy.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I could keep my long bottoms on, but I'd take my top off so they could see that I was lean and ready. So I had to play the game. It's your posture, it's constantly working your body in different angles that tone even the little muscles that we probably don't use in your everyday.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't And that's the reality I didn't do the running that I would have done had I been healthy I had two arms so I did a lot of upper body weights but I physically couldn't do anything with my lower half of my body because I was on crutches and I was taped up every single day. But I made a decision I have to give it all I have I could not just quit at that point I had to give it my best shot No one really knew I was injured I kept very quiet about it going into the games because I didn't want to give that psychological advantage to my competitors”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Michael's tendon just decided to play up and I could not walk. But how do you get through? I got through because of people that dedicated their time to getting me better.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely there was a readiness, there was a mental toughness about me with all the experience that I'd had, so even when I became injured ten weeks before the start of that hectathon in Sydney, I was still mentally ready because there was a great sense of now or never.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's funny people always ask me how do you how do you do it? How do you keep that focus? But I can only tell you it's like a trance like state that you go into because You're just so focused on the job in hand. You have to not allow yourself to think about the outcome. And so you really stay very much in the now. And that is the only way that you can cope with it. Once you get distracted by either the crowd or the anticipation of winning, that's when you make mistakes.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This song for me just takes me back to the Olympics the whole reason for my existence, for my being, for my direction in life. It's by Whitney Houston, it's called One Moment in Time, and it just says everything about performance and endeavour.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. I mean, I'd come home at sort of eight thirty nine o'clock off the bus in the train, and again Caribbean this whole family that I've known and loved always want the best for you, and at that time best was doing your studies, getting the results and making sure that you go to university and make sure you get a good job at the end of it.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think just pushing myself has always been about me and the performance and how much can I squeeze out of my body in order to get the best out of myself. So I felt alive. For me it was a means to an end, it was a journey.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I would have started that just turning fifteen or so, right? Commuting back and forth from school and yes, it was a three-hour round trip back home in the evenings.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All round the wrist. All round the wrist. Some around the neck. Right. And I remember my English teacher, I went into school with them. Just said, looked over the top of his glasses and said The less the more.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Chat number three My Little Curveball but one that reminds me of just that early teens phase when a band called Aha burst onto the scene. I fell in love with Morton Harket the lead singer. This iconic video just blew me away and from that moment on I became a half man. This is Take On Me.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't recall that I remember a happy childhood it was literally we were a little team. You know, we'd do the grocery shopping on a Saturday. I spent a lot of time with her cooking as a child, so all the traditional Caribbean recipes. We had a great relationship.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was working as a typist clerk. She just worked full time you know she picked me up from nursery we'd come back on the bus together and then I'd spend the evening with her and weekends we were always together which was nice”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe I think maybe, but I think she just was her everything, and she didn't want any danger to fall, you know, on my head, so she was very protective”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so I mean looking back I think so I think she was pretty strict you know I couldn't go to many parties without having to beg and beseech”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The don'ts were you don't answer back you do as I say pretty much he wanted me to be a respectful young individual and so accept authority without challenging it I went to church religiously I think I was a pretty good kid I respected her and I still do to this day”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Her daughter, right? I think so. I think it was all born out of, you know, I came to Britain to give you a better life, to give you opportunities. And I think she must have felt at that time it was a big slap in the face that she's gone and repeated some of the issues of the past.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because sad to say, you know, there's this experience that we have as Caribbean families that the men just don't want to stay around. My mother, my grandmother, my great grandmother's sisters were always on their own, raising the families, bringing up the children and supporting each other. And it's sad, I think, that they haven't experienced that loving partnership that, you know, people have for fifty, sixty years of their life. They've had to shower their children with love and be the matriarchal figures in the family.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was nine years of age and what an experience just taking it all in, you know, the place of my mum's birth and then meeting my great grandmother and her brother for the very first time and all my great grandmother's sisters, and looking at my great grandmother for the first time and just been lifted off my feet for this almost bear hug and she just told me how much she loved me and I just thought that was overwhelming.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Going to hear Bob Marley again, my family history is from the Caribbean. My mum came over at ten and I've always had this great connection to the Caribbean so my next track is Is This Love?”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She's She's tough, she's resilient, and she's fiercely independent. And yes, I do get a little bit of my toughness. I saw that look, Kirsty. You gave it away. Too obvious to even”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was seventeen, right. Much of the disappointment of my grandmother, so To be honest, my mama had to do pretty much on her own because she didn't have that parental support. My grandmother was very disappointed in her stepfather didn't want her in the house as a young pregnant lady and they booted her out so she had to live in a hostel for a good few weeks and then my godmother then said this is not right and then brought her in to the home.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“always working. She was a very much a working mother, she had me quite young, much to the disappointment of my grandmother. We are very very.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I saw her before I actually went up to the podium and just after the 800 meters and her face said it all for me. You know, there were tears in her eyes. My coach was crying. And for me it felt like yes, mum, we've done it together.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I thought about where I had actually come from. It was a moment to reflect on other people that had led me, that had supported me to that moment. And I think it just felt complete.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This was maybe a few hours later, you know, the whole procedure is you're on the podium, you then get led off into doping control, then there's a whole series of press interviews. Eventually, all of that dies down, and then you're back on your own. In a bus travelling to the athlete's village, it's half past one at night and you're just on your own taking it all in, and the world just seems like a very big place and you're just very much on your own.”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you spend so many years working towards one particular goal to become Olympic champion, and when you achieve that, there is this sort of emptiness, this void, you just don't know what to do with yourself. And having experienced such elation, that feeling of standing on the podium, hearing the national anthem, witnessing people being reduced to tears by the effort and the performance. And then there was just this what do I do now moment?”
2012-02-05 · Desert Island Discs · Denise Lewis · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source