I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
But boxing was my profession. I had to go back the second time because I was broke and I couldn't just go and get a college degree and earn it. I had too many bills, too many families.
Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today.
When I was 17 or 18, I realised I could do something with boxing.
Boxing was the only career where I wouldn't have to start out at the bottom. I had a good resume.
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
I started athletics in 1999, throwing discus and shot put. I didn't tell my family when I started boxing.
Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.
Everything in our family was always boxing. It was the life my father chose for me.
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