Joseph Parker Quotes

I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.

At 15, I went to boxing. That's when I really wanted to be a champion, so that gave me a goal in life, so it kept me focused on training instead of other things.

My parents showed me the good way. The education I had with them and my dream to become a footballer never let me go off the path.

I wanted to win, always wanting to help my family, always thinking about making the best of myself.

There won't be a day when I stop working to be a better version of myself, so I'm going to keep working and I will get better.

What am I gonna do to be successful and provide for my family? I was like, I want to play basketball, I love basketball, but I'm too short. I'm not gonna cooperate in school... Boxing. I always found boxing, it always came back to boxing, boxing, boxing. Boxing, this is it, this is gonna be the thing gonna take me over the the top.

My father had hammered into me, you want to look after your family, you want a nice house, and you want to be able to enjoy yourself, and you have to work very hard for those things. Don't think the world is going to come to you.

I'm different than another person who wants to lay back and do nothing for rest of the life and talk nonsense on ESPN... I will not do that. I want to achieve something else.

I know how much more I need to do to be where I want.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever I'm doing... Always strive for excellence.

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

I'm not some crazy party animal. That's OK. If you say you want to be the best, you have to do what the best do - train, research, eat right, take care of yourself, and be. Don't pretend.

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.

My mom is proud of me. I just want to keep working hard so one day I can help my family. I am going to get a big house one day, and we all can stay in it and eat.

Most of us start out with a positive attitude and a plan to do our best.

One thing my dad always told me, was he would make sure I always had what he didn't have. He couldn't play basketball because he didn't have tennis shoes - so I had five pairs of tennis shoes.

I was hoping I could become a success to give my mother and my father a better way of living.

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.

Talent is crucial. It needs to be driven by motivation, but blind ambition isn't the key.

I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.

For me, it is important to do well in what I'm doing, to achieve the goals I have for myself.

I believe in myself. I want to be a fighter. I want to be heavyweight champion of the world.