“DEFEND YOUR RIGHTS HOWEVER YOU CAN,” ARTHUR ABRAHAM SAYS

Panorama.am
13:49 18/03/06

“Im iravunk” (My Right) newspaper conducted an
exceptional interview with IBF Box champion Arthur
Abrahamyan (sport name Arthur Abraham).

Q: What will you advise to “Im Iravunk” readers? Do
they have to defend their rights by their fists or by
law?

A: It’s a good question. They have to defend their
either with fists or by law depending on the
circumstances and necessity.

Q: During your life in Armenia you went in for cycle
racing. What is your success in that sport?

A: I have been champion of Armenia among teenagers for
several times. Later I left that sport when I left for
Germany.

Q: How much did it help you in box and what did it
give to you?

A: It gave me durability. Cycle racing is a very
poignant sport and it helped me become World Champion.

Q: Recently your uncle has sent you a woolen mattress
from Armenia…

A: Where did you learn that from?

Q: Anyway, did it help you to become champion?

A: Well, it helped so mush as I could sleep well.

Q: Do you agree that any victory is the result of
struggle?

A: All the victories are.

Q: Nevertheless, what is your formula of victory?

A: Discipline. It includes everything, and if a
sportsman is disciplined all the results will come
automatically.

Q: And what did life in Germany give you?

A: Again discipline. I used to be late for the
trainings for 10-15 minutes in the past, and now there
is nothing of the kind. On the contrary, I always go
5-10 minutes earlier.

Q: And what do you think, can Armenia become Germany
form that point of view?

A: Armenia doesn’t matter in this case. Every person
has to work over him to be come disciplined himself.

Q: You used to train in Sports School after
Yengibaryan and one of these days you visited it. In
what state was the school and what can be done?

A: There was no state at all. Everything must be done
from the very beginning.

Q: Today most young people smoke and use alcohol. What
would you advise them as a person they want to
resemble?

A: I advise everybody, not only the young, to go in
for sports not to become professional but to become
estranged form the street life. Little children go in
for sport involuntarily, but when they grow up sport
becomes a need. But it cannot be done by words; every
person must think and do on his own. /A. PETROSYAN/

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