Anthony Yarde Quotes

Anthony Yarde

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 13, 1991

Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.

Anthony Yarde

Boxing is not a sport where you can be at a low level at all.

Anthony Yarde

I saw a lot of bad things happen by people I know and to people I know. There were a lot of different gangs around and sometimes you found yourself in conflict. I found myself attracting negative things because I was in a negative environment, I was pre-determining this stuff before it happened.

Anthony Yarde

I wasn't good at football when I was young but I made myself get good at football because of my mentality.

Anthony Yarde

It was an impossible ask to go out to Russia and knock out Kovalev. I felt that was the only way I'd win, but I made a good account of myself and we keep moving onwards and upwards.

Anthony Yarde

I never shy away from my childhood and where I was raised because it made me who I am today.

Anthony Yarde

My dreams are to unify the world light-heavyweight titles like Roy Jones did and then at cruiserweight before then possibly the heavyweight division.

Anthony Yarde

I am not looking at Dec Spelman as if he is a fighter I can just walk through. I don't go out looking for knockouts.

Anthony Yarde

I haven't done no trash talking. And, I don't do trash talking.

Anthony Yarde

I told my boss, 'Thank you - but I'm not going to be here tomorrow. I'm going to pursue my career as a boxer.' I remember the woman actually laughed at me. She giggled and said, 'Boxing? Well, good luck.'

Anthony Yarde

I have been very busy having so many fights since I turned pro. To have 13 in little more than two years is a lot by modern standards.

Anthony Yarde

I love pizza, I love Chinese food, Caribbean food, I love Italian.

Anthony Yarde

I've got a lot of criticism for not taking domestic fights but I've got my own strategy.

Anthony Yarde

I'd fight anybody. People are turning me down and I know that for a fact.

Anthony Yarde

Boxing gives you discipline, it helps you physically and mentally.

Anthony Yarde

Not any disrespect to Kovalev or anything but I'm not focussed on Kovalev, I'm not a fan of his.

Anthony Yarde

The thing I learnt the most from the Kovalev fight, in all my other fights, when I hurt my opponent I was composed, but because this was such a big fight, I lost my cool, I started fighting with emotion instead of using my common sense and tactics to break him down.

Anthony Yarde

I know that you need to be entertaining at the beginning to get people interested, and what interests people is knockouts and excitement.

Anthony Yarde

When you get a bit older, life can start kicking and it was mainly the area I grew up in that began to lead me astray. I went down the wrong paths to some degree.

Anthony Yarde

Everyone has their own methods, when Muhammad Ali was coming through I am sure people said he leaned back too far, had his chin too high and dropped his hands too low. I am not comparing myself Ali, just showing that people have different methods that work for them.

Anthony Yarde