Aidan Walsh
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
But when you know yourself, when you're struggling that much, you want something to be over, you don't appreciate it.
And you don't take it in.
You just can't wait until it's over.
You can't wait to go home.
You can't wait to spend time with your family.
And that's the way I was for most of my career.
And when he said that to me, I was like, I've 100% made the right decision to step away from sport.
I genuinely was enjoying myself that trip.
I didn't want to go and compete.
I didn't want to get in and train.
I was watching boxing.
I was enjoying boxing for a first time in a very, very long time.
And see, even as soon as I stepped away, there was a period where I hadn't really been about boxing fights or I sort of stayed away and just sort of stayed in the background.
Didn't even go near boxing gyms or nothing.
And the first time that I went to boxing fights was in Belfast in the Irish Elite Championships.