Ellyse Perry

But perhaps maybe, and I'm so incredibly grateful to my parents and all the opportunities that they've given my brother and I growing up and the support and all those things.

Honestly, I can't believe it, that they're my parents in a lot of ways.

But I guess there's always been this...

this part of it where it is like a perspective of like what sport actually means in the grand scheme of things.

I remember mum telling me, and it really stuck with me, like I was probably like seven or eight and I was in the back of her Kia,

Mentor.

I don't even know if they make them anymore, but a little hatchback thing.

And she was driving me to an athletics carnival and I was packing it.

Like, it was a pretty big deal.

Like, we got to compete at Homebush, like a school athletics carnival, Bancroft Primary School.

And, you know, so it was like, it was off campus.

We were on the way to this athletics carnival and I was so nervous.

Like, I just...

I felt so sick and I didn't like, I just wanted like, honestly, if someone had said we can turn the car around right now and go home, I would have been like, yes, please.

And I remember mum kind of looking at me and being like, are you okay?

And I was like, I don't want to do it.

And she said to me like, well, why don't you want to do it?

And I'm like, oh, I don't want to.

Like, I don't want to be bad.

Like, I'm kind of scared of being beaten, I guess.