Boxing Aspirations Quotes

I wanted to fight guys like Shane Moseley, Miguel Cotto, and Alvarez.

When I was about 12, I realised I wasn't going to make it as a top footballer, but I won my first British ABA title at 13. From then on, I wanted to be a world champion.

I want a superfight. That's my biggest wish. I want to test myself in different divisions.

They are the three venues I wanted to box in - I wasn't really interested in Las Vegas and all of them places. The three I always said was Croke Park, United, and Madison Square Garden.

My dad would tell me stories about when he was an underground fighter. One day when I was 11, he told me he wished he had a son who could have been a real boxer.

I was always at the gymnasium every day at six o'clock after school. In the mornings I would run, looking forward to future golden gloves and Olympic tournaments.

I had always wanted to play a boxer, all of my life. I grew up watching great boxing films.

Yes, I think about having a career in boxing, but I want to start from the bottom, start from zero. I want to get ranked and one day fight for a belt. I don't want to fight just to fight, for money, to go after big fights and challenge a great champion.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.