I want it all: I want the attention and live for the glory nights.
ANTHONY JOSHUAPeople who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
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Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.
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It’s not so much about conquering Madison Square Garden or Vegas. The opponents who I fight will take me all around different venues and arenas. I need to conquer opponents.
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Ali was a legend of our sport. For me as a kid, he inspired me to represent myself like a champion in and out of the ring.
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People are paying to see me. You’ve got to give something back.
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I am nice, yeah. I’m cool. But I’m no push-over. And if someone gets one over on me, they’ve done it when my eyes were closed, and it doesn’t happen twice.
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I don’t have a preferred religion – I’d have to do research. I was born a Christian, but as I’ve grown into my own man, I don’t attach myself to a religion – 100 per cent, I have faith. Then it’s locking into what suits me.
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Boxing’s a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
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You have to speak from a place where all is possible. When you speak from a place where there’s limits, you’ve already set yourself up to fail.
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I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That’s what I’m trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who’s trying and trying.
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I can be the nice family man at home, and then when I go to the gym, maybe sparring with someone, I switch into beast mode. It ain’t pretty.
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Sleeping is like meditation: it’s good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.
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Boxing is the embodiment of who I am, but beyond that, this is a journey of the self, and my obsession to get the most from this short life.
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No matter how big and strong you are even Tyson said he was scared as hell walking to the ring. Everyone feels the pressure.
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I was raised well. My parents are from Nigeria; their culture is respectful. Very respectful. But I learnt that you have to be determined. It’s not violence or aggression. It’s sheer determination.
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I know every fight could be my last fight, and if that happens, that’s not just a health issue, but I’ll be knocked off that king’s stool.
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