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This is boxing, not tennis. Everyone likes a bit of rivalry, it makes for a good fight.

Anthony Joshua

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
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
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
People who do crime do it for reward. But you end up in jail – that’s no reward. Through crime, your ambitions are low.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Ambition Crime End Low People Prison
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.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Attitude Character Eyes Myself
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.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Place Possible Talk Yourself
It’s hard to say I don’t like being famous, but how I feel is that I don’t see myself as that person. It baffles me that people would want a picture with me.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Famous Feeling Hard Myself Photograph
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
The belt doesn’t represent me; it’s how you deal with people, how you represent yourself as a champion. The belt is a sign of a champion, but what makes a champion is the things I have just said.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Deal People Representation Thing Yourself
Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it’s very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we’re just maintaining that routine.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

Connection Important Maintain Practice Prayer Spiritual
Boxing’s a sport that gives you licence to act like an idiot, I think.
ANTHONY JOSHUA

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

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