Neil Adams
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376 appearances
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first heard Apr 2024
last heard Apr 2024
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I don't know whether you can call it a power, but I have the ability to be able to say, stop. And I can just, and that's what I did in the end. In the end, there was an incident when I was working for Belgian judo and there was an incident. It was Christmas. It was, I tell you exactly the day. It was 20th of December and me and a Belgian coach, we got absolutely hammered.
But we were at the wrong place and he got noticed. And so I remember they pulled me up in front of this board and I looked down at these guys and half of them were people I didn't want to be in that situation with. You know, they're not people that I respected and they're not people that I trusted.
I think if it's to do with drinking, all I can say is that the two days or a week into not drinking, you'll feel different. You know, it'll make a physical difference and you'll like that physical difference.
And then from a mental perspective as well, because I think that, you know, you have a massive downer, you know, and I think that that must be because of drugs as well, because I had a situation with my brother, you know, he was like, you know, professional wrestling and the drugs was an element there. And, you know, so I'd never touched a drug or even seen one in my life before.
But, you know, I'd let the alcohol side go too far and then decided never to do that. So then I guess I had people ringing me up, you know, saying, you know, how can we stop? You know, so when they say, can I have a word? Can I discuss something with you? And I know then what they want to discuss with me, you know. And the thing is, is that I would say, you know, if you stop...
then feel the effects of it and it will make a difference to your everyday life. And that will make a massive difference. And I think about anybody who kind of, you know, is down all the time is to find the cause of what's pushing you down. You know what I mean? And try and attack that. I mean, because it's never, somebody once said to me, they said, whatever you got, you know,
We've got something special. I mean, we have a great life and I've had a great competition record. It could have been better, but it was great. But I've had success with my business and we're still out there and we have a great life. We travel all the world. And there's people out there that would live in your house at the drop of a hat, wherever you are. They drive your car everywhere.
No matter what car it is, some people haven't got a car. And whatever food you're having and you're moaning about food, there's somebody out there that would take that and gladly eat that. So there's always somebody worse off than you. And I think that we tend to sometimes look at the things that we haven't got rather than the things we have got.
The most difficult thing I think for anybody is when they have to decide when to stop.
Yeah. You know, and all of a sudden, and I see the ones that are going to second Olympic Games and then third Olympic, and the ones that are there and they're holding on and they're in their 30s now, different to when they were 19 years of age, you know, 30 something is different to 19. And then what are you going to do afterwards? You know, and then how do you become just a normal person?
You're never going to be a normal person. As such, but I think you've got to do normal things, you know, and then you've got, I remember the first time that when I finished competition, I had good sponsors. This was, you know, 40 years ago, but I had two really good sponsorships, Vitamin Company and also Judoge Company. And I had a car and, you know, I had money.
I just, and I was going all over the world. I was successful. And then I stopped. And they took everything back. They took my car. And they did it within two weeks as well. They stopped my funding. And the vitamin company said, thank you very much. It's been a great, you know, we've done well by you. Bye bye.
88 Olympics.
So you go from seven days a week or six days a week going into the gym and you're working out the dojo and then you don't have to do it. And that's why you get a lot of... When they finish competition, they finish that 30 to 40. I mean, Ilyas is still doing it now. He's still in there and he's still, you know, because he can, right? Okay. And it's natural. And I did exactly the same.
And then, like I say, you just get to an age and you just think, well, I'm just going to kind of take a step back.
It'd be interesting, wouldn't it, just to see what they're doing now. Because at some stage, you have to get a normal job. You do have to stop. You do have to stop. At some stage, you have to decide what you're going to do. It's either into coaching. The judo is either to coaching. Or if you're not in coaching, then it's into – something to do with the media.
And, you know, I was lucky that I – it was just by accident, really, with the commentary. Somebody said, would you do a voiceover? So I did this voiceover, and that was back in 1982 I did that.
I did some voiceovers. I wouldn't call it commentating. But I did some voiceovers, and then I did some – we did some different – European Championships, World Championship kind of events. And I did the voiceovers for it. And the way that it was done, that it was more narration. And so it kind of turned into then somebody asked me to do an event.
And when you listen to the intonation of the voice and stuff like that, it wasn't like it is now. But I guess that's just something that developed as a, you know, because then it was coming from the heart. And I, you know, started to get excited and just do my thing. And it was just me, really. It's just my style.
I think it's timing as well, isn't it? It's like you get your timing a bit better and know when to go in, when to come out, when to say something, when not. I think that in the early days, I tended to want to talk all the time, and you don't have to do that.
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