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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

I’ll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I’ll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Business Man Myself Night Recovery
You’re confident, you’re going to the ring to fight, but there’s always that little thing where you’re thinking, ‘God.’ You’re nervous. But you have to embrace it and enjoy it.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Confidence Embrace Enjoyment Fight Ring Thinking Yourself
Don’t worry about the title. Worry about what you’ve got to do today, tomorrow, the next day, and that title will be waiting for you.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Day Wait Worry Yourself
For me to have a cheeky little biscuit, it’s not going to hurt. But I need to control those indulgences. I can’t just be scoffing cakes and biscuits five nights a week.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Biscuit Control Food Myself Night
Wherever you get to is better than where you started. To stay on the road is a massive achievement.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Achievement Better Massive Road Start Stay Yourself
I realised that I could either fight and get into trouble on the street or I could fight and get paid in the ring. I chose the ring.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Choice Fight Myself Pay Realization Ring
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
Boxing’s a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Boxing License Myself Sports Thinking
This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Fight Goodness Rival Sports
The mental is more important than the physical. You know, that voice in your head telling you to give up if it gets tough. That’s my main opponent – making sure that if your body wants to stop, your mind won’t let you.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Body Give Up Head Important Mental Stop Voice Yourself
America is the mecca of boxing, and they’ve had some great champions here. It’s good to establish your skills and let people know what you’re about in the States.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Boxing Establish Sports State Yourself
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
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.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Aggression Culture Determination Learning Myself Parents Raise Respect Violence
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.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Children Development Feeling Goodness Hungry Life Myself Young
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
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

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