Anthony Ogogo: 'When I started boxing I was an angry little boy'

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Anthony Ogogo: 'When I started boxing I was an angry little boy'
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'I was 14 years old and I travelled down to Crystal Palace... I finally got there and thought I'm now going to make some friends, some black friends, people like me.'

For my entire life I thought they got divorced because of me, that really messed me up.I saw my mum struggle, I saw her work her backside off to provide for us, so I was very much driven at being successful to make her and my whole family proud.

Lowestoft is the most easterly point in the UK, that's our little tag line, but what that means is it's [difficult] to get to, nobody goes there, it's [difficult] to get from and nobody leaves.Ogogo Family PhotoOgogo says he sees his mum Teresa, who had a brain aneurysm in the weeks leading up to the London 2012 Olympic Games, as a "superhero"

But all the cards were stacked against me. I was from a family full of women - my mum and my four sisters - [there was] not one ounce of male testosterone in my life other than the boxing coaches.Where I'm from, people don't go to the Olympic Games, people don't become successful.If you want to be a sporting star then you come from London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, that path has been walked a thousand times before.

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