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Kelly Holmes

lines on the record: 48
first: 2006-01-01
most recent: 2006-01-01
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Have to be if I ain't got you because that was the song that captured my imagination at the Olympic Games and helped me fulfil all my ambitions.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Some people that have died that I know and I would have this played at my funeral, which is a bit morbid, but I really love the song and it's kind of really remembering a lot of people that I think about.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, cut. Last record. Okay, next one. Actually, here's the motion of song. And this is called Angel from the City of Angels. This is really about...”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm just quite in disbelief about what's happened to me, to be honest, but I can't believe it, but I'm just so pleased that I hang in there.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's a private Kelly Homes, but not for any reason other than the thing is I just want to be myself and people that know me know who I am and that's all that matters.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Still only thirty five I don't know what I want to do at the moment. Do you know what for me at the moment I'm living my life? I want to be Kelly Holmes. I just want to be me and whatever that takes, you know, whatever I choose to do, whatever whoever I choose to meet, I want to do it for me. And I don't kind of talk about those things to people because I believe they're something for myself. It's a private.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I feel really relaxed about myself now. I've sort of quite relieved that I've finished everything. I'm really excited about what my future holds. Nervous in a way as well because I've always had direction and for me it's very strange to not have that one thing to grab onto. So in a way originally I felt quite lost, but I'm now quite excited because I feel that, if anything, what the Olympics has done for me is to give me a voice, you know, to help people make a difference to their lives in whatever way.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, direction. For me, it's not about coaching. I think it's about giving them the truth about what it takes to be an athlete, never giving up and always saying that if you give something 100%, at least you can say you tried. My next one is, I believe, a real big, inspirational kind of song. I think this is a really nice word. And again, it's like I believe in myself.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I could and I really would love to do that. You know, I've got so many projects in my head that I'd like to do. I'm already a mentor for some junior international athletes And I hope to see that through to 2012. I really believe there's a couple of my girls that could become Olympians in there.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Which I think is ridiculous. I want to change that. Sport has no barriers. You know, it doesn't matter the size or your weight or your colour or your religion or your race, you know. It doesn't matter. There's something for everybody. And, you know, I've been places where there's been big kind of girls and they're like, oh, and they're really embarrassed because they can't spin up and down. I said, okay, you pick this up and you show me, throw that ball up there as far as you can throw it. So they do it and they throw it and then I get a girl that's been sprinting all the time and really good at running and I get her to throw it and she can't throw it as far. And so there you go, that's your thing. You're strong, you know, and you always try and put the positives into them. You're strong instead of saying, oh, you're big overweight, you're a strong girl. Use that to your advantage. Find something. Do judo. Do whatever, you know.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, because then you understand what it is. No, I think it's about lifestyle. I want to get more pee put back in schools. At the moment it's only sixty percent of school children have two hours of PE per week.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's a lot of things that I'd like to do, to be honest, and I don't think I've got one goal because I've achieved everything I've ever wanted, I have to admit, you know, being in the army and my two medals, but I think I'd like to do a lot of different things. But one thing is really to inspire children. I really would love to have a sporting culture. So when the Olympic Games comes to Great Britain, everybody feels Olympic spirit and the passion that I did from the Olympic Games, even if they don't take part. It's such a special, special movement that you only get if you've got that passion.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I really don't know just don't know. I just believe that over all the years that I've been fighting, something said about her time. Next one is one of my old ones I used to like Kids from Fame, Red Light and it's kind of young kids in art school trying to achieve things and I quite like it because they're trying to follow their dream and passion.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, yeah, going for the 1500 meters, and somebody's saying that if you've already become one of the greats, but if you win too, you become a legend. I was like, oh yeah, right. You know, God, I'm knackered sort of thing. And then I did it.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then when I won the 800 metres, it was like, oh, it's on my face. That was just, that was a shock for me, you know, winning the 800. I don't even decided a couple of days before that I was definitely going to do the 800.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah, I mean, after that real bad time, and I didn't tell anyone about it, but after that real bad time, I sat down with people from athletics and I said, there's one thing you can help me, I can't get injured. That's the only thing that any money goes towards just make it my physio and my doctors. I have to stay healthy. I have to stay into free. I said because I said I really believe that if I am injury free and healthy, I can do it. It was my last chance of going for the Olympic glory. And the only way I had any chance was for this body to say in one piece. Just when just like a fairy tale, really. And I was, I can't remember I told this story.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Kind of crowded me, you know, and it was kind of I'm never going to do it, I'm never going to do it. And it was only a year away from the Olympics. And all I could still think about, even though we had a championship to go to, was the Olympic Games. But I did get out of it. And within a couple of weeks, I became Silver Medalist at the World Champs.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To the end of that hope, and I yeah, I came depressed and I cut myself with scissors and stuff, but you don't ever think you're gonna, you know, but I got desperate, you know, for just... Things to go right for once, you know Well, you don't know. The thing is, when you're in that state, you know Everything is bad, everything in my life at the time was wrong. I just couldn't get out of it. I've never experienced that low before, and when you're in it you don't see a way out, and it's very, very hard, and I was very, very down, low, just thought that I'm never ever going to achieve this dream. And it's because the dream was such a big passion that everything.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I did I like I saying originally that every time something kind of knocked me down I would get back up from it and think well I can do it and then I'd be knocked down again and I'd be I can do it and eventually that kind of comes to a head where you just think why I'm trying everything and why does someone keep knocking me down and came to 2003 and I'd just indoor world championships my first time got a silver medal and I was really kind of hyped up and everything and I thought the season's going to go brilliant and maybe it's my chance to get my global world title that you know kind of eluded me along the way and then I went and got another injury in my calf and my ankle tear my calf from the ankle and I just do you know what I just came”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Next one is Sounds of Blackness I'm Going All The Way and I actually this was one of the songs that after the Night Six Olympics I thought the words in this song was like I am going all the way I would do it”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I can just wipe the floor with you Now again it's very hard for me to explain these feelings, but I just always believed that I would become Olympic champion. There was always something that said to me you will one day do it. I just didn't know when obviously and I think I had such a strong belief in myself that I never wanted to give up. And what has happened is every time I was knocked down I actually come back stronger because I thought, well, I know I can do it. I know it's just the injury and I know I can do it and I know I can do it.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was really hard to know, to be honest, but I was very, very fit I was one of the favourites to win a medal because I'd already won two at the World Championships the year before and two the year before and I remember feeling a bruise like on my leg and I thought oh that's strange and I'd had a brilliant session the day before so I was really kind of raring to go. So I went to the doctor and basically, to cut a long story short, it ended up being a stress thatcher and I had no idea and suddenly I was like devastated that I'm at the Olympic Games and I've got a stress thatcher. The doctor said we don't think you should run and I was adamant that I was going to run because I didn't know if I was ever going to get to Olympic Games again, you know, and I was at the Olympic Games and the stress of the fact that I was injured knowing that I was fit before and the pain and whatever I just really kind of got emotional and all that before the race. So I kind of then didn't go into the race totally focused. But despite that I ended up coming forth and I got picked on the line, you know.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I used to run against her when I was a junior, so it was kind of really strange seeing this person that I used to run against sometimes beat in the Olympic Games. And that kind of really ignited that passion.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they go like hairs because they're thinking, right, we've got to beat her. So I knew the route, and they think I knew it's really hard. So I started passing and passing and passing them, see all these in the distance, going up the hills. Some of them are like starting to slack. And I was thinking about us picking them off, picking them off. And there's one guy. And I thought, right, so we came back through the gate and we had like this little bit about 100 metres up to the gym. I sprinted past this guy and I got there and just literally picked him. That day, I had the most respect. And then the thing is, they told the next platoon, next platoon, so I had to, it was brilliant. So, yeah, so I like that sort of thing, you know, because I can tell.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I did, actually I was a corporal at a place called Beckensfield and it's the Army training centre for potential kind of officers. And I remember once being in the... And I come in as little me, and they sort of wasn't paying attention, you know, and I don't like that. And so in the end, it kind of bugged me. I said, right, everyone outside, we're going to do a three-mile run round the bowl. It's called a bowl. It's like really undulating, a huge crater sort of thing in the woods. Anyone that's behind me, by the time we get back is coming in every morning, five o'clock for two weeks. And so sent them off and I actually went behind them all because I was gave them them.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was a life. I mean, that was my career. I thought I was going to be in 22 years. I was Army Barmy. It was really was. And I wanted to be a physical train structure, but there's no intake. And so they said, we have to choose another train. And so I became HGV driver.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. I remember careers officers coming into our school and playing this video to do with the Navy REF and the Army. It was doing all these sort courses and scrambling under and running around and all the fitness training. And I thought, oh, that's brilliant. That's me. And so that started my dream of wanting to be in the army.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, springy, strong even though I was young, and I think the passion to work hard what he said, you know, was that I would always want to train. You know, I'd always do it and nothing was too much or nothing was too hard for me. It was always I have to do it because I want to get better.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean I don't know what he saw in me to be honest, but I think I had quite a lopey stride and to him it was quite effortless even at a young age.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really proud. Record number three. Well, my next song is kind of like what every woman I think feels, you know, and for me about being independent and it's Destiny's child independent woman”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was just going on the street, you know, the doors open. They chummed a little around with this blue-biding tumble dry and we've eventually got it in the house and I put a massive bow on it and then I ran back upstairs with a cup of tea. And then when we came down, they were just like absolutely shocked, but I felt so proud that I'd done it, you know.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did. We didn't have a tumble gyre at the time and I earned £12 a week. And what I thought was maybe I could buy it for Christmas. So what I did is I saved £10 a week and gave it to my nan and granddad and they used to go down to curry's and put on the £10 a week because I lived in one house and they literally lived over the next house. And so they put it up in their shed. And that Christmas morning, my mum has this big thing about you have to get up, make a cup of tea, have breakfast, wash, take the dogs out, get ready before you can go anywhere near the damn Christmas tree, you know, and that's what we want to do in here. You don't want to do all that stuff. You just want to go diving in. So anyway, there's one thing she says, oh, make me a cup of tea. And so I go downstairs, pretend I'm making a cup of tea. Meanwhile, I'm out struggling with my Nan with the wheelbower, trying to get this tumble dry in the wheelbower. And all I could hear my mum, where's my capitar?”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know, just everything. Because my mum and dad didn't have a lot of money at all. So I thought, well, the only way I can get what I want is to earn money.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Is the person that I am, to be honest with you, then I probably try and Make things of my life so that I can always feel that I've done something special and that's what makes me happy. And so yes, things affected me and I was very emotional about things and even really late into my life when you think about certain situations. But because sport captures kind of your imagination for me it was something that I could hold on, something that I could prove to myself, something I could do. And then I found athletics eventually.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, but I don't think things really affect me too bad. It's kind of just those when you're growing up, those sort of thoughts that you have and you kind of have insecurities. And I suppose I grew up with a bit of insecurities about those sort of things, you know, thinking that why wasn't my mum and dad together? Of course.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think that's kind of the thing that you get because you feel maybe you don't belong totally in that environment. And”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's right. Yeah, Mick, who's my dad and still is, does all my painting and decorating. Yeah, they married and they had my brothers Kevin and Stuart, who I dotted on absolutely. But obviously he wasn't my dad's, you know, it's kind of that. I don't know that fight against something when he's telling you off. You're like, well, you're not my dad, so you can't tell me. You used it against him. And yeah, and I did. I did that. And maybe that was a little bit of a jealousy thing as well, because he was with my mum, you know, and I felt that.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Put you in on that four. Yeah, nearly four. Yes, and she was really young then, obviously, and long, long hair she used to have long hair that she used to sit on, you know, and yeah, so I just thought she was, you know, beautiful. My next record is Bony M Brown Girl and the Ring, now like I said I was brought up in a white county and I went to the all white school and I was the only brown girl and they put me in the ring and sang girl in the ring but I loved it because I was the sugar in the plum plum plum.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They said it was me or them, and she chose me. And she left home. How cool was that? Yeah, so she left home and tried to make a go of it, but obviously became very hard and she needed to have a job to kind of live. So the only option for her was to put me in the child home. But, you know, I was a baby, so it's not really wasn't going to affect me in that respect.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they thought, well, the only way that they would let my mother go back home, thinking she's only 17, obviously, was that if she had me adopted. But she put me into a child home just because she couldn't cope, you know. I mean, she didn't have any money, she didn't have a job, she didn't kind of want to lose me, lose me, so she put me into a home.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think so, I mean, obviously mum knows a lot more of the story and things, but I don't think they were that accepting. Well, they wanted to be shut for a doctor.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She was 17, very young, and it was very hard for her. I mean, I actually admire when I think about where she was at that, she kind of grew up and she did in a white village of Hildenborough, very small, you know, kind of white of a white kent. And suddenly she's with a black guy, which is no problem whatsoever. But the fact that she's then going to bring a mixed race chardon to a white kind of family and a white neighborhood and the child's illegitimate and all those things.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, my first record actually was my Olympic song. The words in the song really meant a lot to me. And if you listen to the words mean my gold medals.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the thing is, when you're in the village, you're very isolated. So I only saw one newspaper after winning the 800 metres, and I was on the front page and I was like, oh my God, I'm on the front page. And it was really exciting. I was on the front page. And little do I know, when I came back after the 1500 metres, my mother had a stack and I was like on the front page, a back page, middle page, everywhere. And I thought, oh my God. But when we had the home coming parade, I was just really worried for the organisers because I was thinking, oh God, it'd be so embarrassing if not many people turn up and 80,000 people turned up. It was just incredible. Wonderful.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I think I was in a different zone, you know. I mean, I said to people that I'm not actually a religious person, but something was helping me, that championships I really believe it. I really believe that things are meant to happen for a reason and all the bad times got to a stage where I think it was totally testing my wit and does she really want it? And all I can say is that I proved that I did and somebody thought, well, there you go. She's really done it. She gave me a lot of good fortune in the end.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He Actually, the 800 first because he gave me my medal, my gold medal, but just prior to that, he actually had to be on his hands and knees undoing my spikes, which I thought was quite ironic, you know, my hero, Lord Sebastian Coe, on whose hands and knees taking my spikes off. Well, it was in awe, wasn't it?”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was 14 when I thought to myself that I want to be Olympic champion and that was after watching Sebco at the 84 Olympics. And I just really figured that I wanted to achieve something in my life and I wanted to be Olympic champion and it was just from then.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, definitely it was, and you never know when you're going to each Olympic Games that you've got another one to come because they're four years apart. Sydney, I was 30 years old, you know, and I thought, God, that was going to be my last chance. But to actually get to Athens and be the age I was, but to realise my dream will actually surpass my dream. Well, absolutely. We didn't win the double. Yeah, exactly.”
2006-01-01 · Desert Island Discs · Kelly Holmes · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source