Anthony Joshua Quotes

That's my hunger. If I start to relax, and I lose that, then I had better stop my football. I need that hunger. I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.

The hunger doesn't diminish when you win something. If you have the chance to win the European and Spanish Super Cups and the Club World Cup, that makes you want to win even more.

I'm very competitive. If I have to 'turn it on,' I know how to. The switch isn't hard to find, don't worry.

You don't have to like me as a person - I understand that I can get on people's nerves with the antics I do in the ring. This is not a popularity contest. I'm trying to do whatever I can to win the fight.

No matter who I'm playing against, they're going to say that I'm one of the toughest guys they play, for sure.

Who's on my radar? I don't have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don't go after them because I'm where they want to be.

I'm just living life, but I'm happy to still be fighting at 41. It's something I like to do, so the more I can do this, the better.

I think something that has separated me from the rest of the competition - maybe it's just my way of thinking - I don't necessarily go into fights just wanting to win but to actually dominate. So when I don't feel like I dominate, sometimes I feel like a loser, I guess, you know, maybe in that perspective.

I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality. If it's Michael Jordan, you know, that's the mentality I take to the court.

If a player wants to be the best, then they also need to give themselves a talking-to. You need to look inwards.

I don't just want to be that guy who throws hard.

Any fighter worth his salt wants to be the best and to be the best you have to fight the best.

I'm the type of player, once I get in there, I'm locked in. I'm trying to win.

I can dominate a game at any point.

To beat Wladimir Klitschko, I have to be better than I've ever been.

Everybody is calling me crazy because I want to do the Ironman. I'm not doing it to win it. I'm doing it to finish it. I'm racing myself, not a particular field or group of people.

The thing about the NBA, if you have a weakness, they are going to expose it on the first day of practice. You have to get rid of your weaknesses, and your strengths have to be as sharp as anything.

I want to challenge myself and test myself against the best players in the world, and there are not many people better than the likes of Ronaldo.

Everyone's got talent at the level we're at. But being a smart, tough football player - there's a huge premium for that.

I know that I'm not the fastest or the strongest or the best in the air, so from a very early age, I had to be positionally sound, or I was going to get beat. So you just kind of learn as you grow.

Your competitive juice, your love of the game, it's in you. It's hard to get out.

What Conte gave me was hunger, the desire to never give in, the mentality that allows you to go beyond pain to reach your objectives.

Competition is good for any player as long as they react the right way and use it as motivation.

I'm just a very impatient person. It's always something that I'm working on, and just staying interested in the fight game is the biggest challenge for me. As long as I'm interested and I have an incentive to stay interested, then I'm unbeatable.

There are so many good players in the NBA, and I just want to be at the top of the talent pool. I want opposing coaches and players to fear me.