Jamie Laing

I know.

You know, when you see it from an outside perspective, it's like it seems so great and whatnot.

But it's like, see with me, and obviously my family, they see that I've been boxing since I was nine years old and how much I've sacrificed and dedicated to this.

So it doesn't seem like a crazy thing to me and my family, if that makes sense.

I think, I don't know if this is a quote or not, and it might be a quote.

I might have said it incorrectly, but.

It's like it takes five years to become an overnight success.

Overnight success doesn't just happen overnight.

There's like a whole sort of... Backstory to it.

Backstory to it, exactly.

So my brother, Carol, he was in a classroom with like four or five boxers or two, three boxers.

But the whole school had that four or five boxers at the time.

And they kept talking about boxing.

My brother wanted to get into the chat, in the boxing chat.

They said, why don't you join the gym?

My brother joined the gym, became a national champion.

And then like a year later, told me that, listen, you ain't doing nothing.

So why don't you join the gym as well?

So I did.

and then like I just remember like the first couple sessions I was sick I threw up this is nine years old yeah I was getting battered so I was just like you know what maybe this boxing thing's not for me and then I started playing football and I got really I didn't like