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When you are caught with a big shot, you don’t really feel it. It’s like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off… it is only when you look down at it that you realise it has happened.

Anthony Joshua

In boxing, it is about the obsession of getting the most from yourself: wanting to dominate the world like a hungry young lion.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Domination Hungry Obsession World Young Yourself
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.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Myself Religion Research Suit
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Art Battle Lose Training War Win Yourself Zone
Prayer is a form of meditation, isn’t it? It’s laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It’s just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Attraction Law Meditation Prayer Universe Yourself
There’s so much pressure on becoming the next Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, and if you don’t achieve that in boxing, you’re nothing.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Achievement Goal Idol Yourself
Boxing’s a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Boxing License Myself Sports Thinking
What makes a champion great is how he dethrones the guy before him. Look at Mike Tyson against Trevor Berbick and how he crushed him. You have to rip the title away from him.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Crush Greatness Man Yourself
There’s this idea that because I’m a heavyweight, I’m not supposed to be in condition, that I should take advantage of the fact that I can eat. But I train and eat well, and it shows when I step on the scales.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Advantage Condition Ideas Myself Scale Suppose Training
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.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Children Myself Ring Sports
I kind of focus on my own stuff, really, and then when people come into my territory, I’ve got to fight them away, and that’s what we do every time fight night happens.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Focus Kind Myself Night People Territory
Sportsmen just do what they do. I’m not trying to be a role model. If there’s any inspiration people can take from me, take as much as you can – from my good and my bad.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Bad Goodness Inspirational Role Sports Try
People have built me up to be untouchable, unbeatable, invincible, and I’m not that. I am a man, and I am a winner, but that can change in a second.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Beat Build Change Myself Touch
Sleeping is like meditation: it’s good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Body Meditation Mindset Sleep
I want it all: I want the attention and live for the glory nights.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Attention Glory Live Myself Night
Just set yourself a goal and try and stick to it. Because you’ll always end up better than where you started.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Better End Goal Start Yourself
I think towards the end of my career, I’m the man. But right now, I’ve still got that underdog mentality to keep on proving myself time and again. I’m not going to believe the hype.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Believe Career Man Mental Myself Thinking Time

When you are caught with a big shot, you don’t really feel it. It’s like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off… it is only when you look down at it that you realise it has happened.

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When you are caught with a big shot, you don’t really feel it. It’s like being in a car crash, and maybe your arm has been ripped off… it is only when you look down at it that you realise it has happened.

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