{"id":1147461,"date":"2026-08-14T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1147461\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:30:13","slug":"paddy-donovan-thankful-for-having-teacher-andy-lee-in-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1147461\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Donovan thankful for having \u2018teacher\u2019 Andy Lee in his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYeah, listen, without Andy, I\u2019d be in a strange place,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cI don\u2019t even want to say where I\u2019d be. I\u2019ve got a great team and he\u2019s been monumental to me. Keith Sullivan in America has been the same thing. These guys are keeping me up. It\u2019s not about what Andy is doing, I think, in the ring that matters, because when I turn up to train I\u2019ll always be the same. I\u2019m very very disciplined. I work extremely hard, but sometimes I can suffer outside the gym and I think Andy\u2019s done a great job managing me, like what Jose Mourinho did with Chelsea or Alex Ferguson did with Manchester United to all the players [as a man manger]. I think Andy is very very good at managing all of us in our own aspects individually, brilliantly. He\u2019s done a great job and I\u2019m still here. I\u2019m still fighting and I\u2019m still trying to keep on that path of becoming world champion, which is not easy. My god, it\u2019s not easy. I never thought it was. When you start any sport really, when you\u2019re a kid, you\u2019re enjoying the sport, you\u2019re doing it because you love it. But you kind of come to an age where things really change, your mindset really changes, problems start to come, family issues, blah blah blah, etc. But it goes for a lot of fighters. It\u2019s not easy. I didn\u2019t understand that it was going to be this tough, this challenging. But the main thing is just winning in the ring right now in my career and it\u2019s the most valuable thing that I can do right now, so Tyrone is in my way and it\u2019s probably the first fight where I feel like, not angry, but just want to get on with this. Get Tyrone out of the way and go win this world championship. Just as simple as that really. I know it\u2019s not an easy task to do, but my god, I\u2019m hungry now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cYeah, listen, without Andy, I\u2019d be in a strange place,\u201d Donovan said. \u201cI don\u2019t even want to say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1147462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4108],"tags":[13526,1935,4496,4779,242434,4351,23530,23531,79,311979,16,15],"class_list":["post-1147461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-andy-lee","tag-boxing","tag-boxing-news","tag-boxing-scene","tag-croke-park","tag-katie-taylor","tag-lewis-crocker","tag-paddy-donovan","tag-sports","tag-tyrone-mckenna","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1147461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1147461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}