It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
When I was 15 years old, I left school and became a professional boxer.
In order to understand the mindset of a boxer, I needed to become a boxer myself.
I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.
When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.
I'm a fighter, not a quitter.
When I have a few weeks off, I catch up with my friends, but after a week or so, I just can't wait to get back in to the boxing club and start training.
I ran into a couple of guys who were boxers. They talked me into working out at their gym. I became obsessed with boxing and the idea of becoming a champion.
Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.