Quotes by Anthony Yarde - Page 2

When I first went into a boxing gym I watched Kovalev fight on TV and now my name is spoken about in the same light as him, now I'm fighting him.
Anthony Yarde /
Spoken
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With my dad it was a short time between him getting ill and passing. He got ill first and he took a turn for the worse very quickly, within days.
Anthony Yarde /
Ill
Passing
Short Time
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I know there's a lot of opinions about Covid-19 and I have mine but I just know opinions ain't worth risking your life and others. Just stay home.
Anthony Yarde /
Home
Life Your Know
Life Home Your
Stay
Mine
Opinions
Risking
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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 /
Division
Titles
Heavyweight
Roy
Unify
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I've always wanted to be the strongest in my school, in my class, everywhere. I don't care if I'm in year seven, I wanted to be the strongest in the school.
Anthony Yarde /
Strongest
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I used to imitate Stone Cold Steve Austin. Identical. I literally made my own waistcoat like Stone Cold, put a little '3:16' I cut out of newspapers for it.
Anthony Yarde /
Austin
Identical
Newspapers
Imitate
Steve
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The Rock is somebody that every kid in my era grew up watching. Legend. His success is not only in wrestling but what he's done after it has been spectacular.
Anthony Yarde /
Spectacular
Legend
Success Is
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When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age, but I wasn't interested in rugby at the time.
Anthony Yarde /
Growing Up
Rugby
Signing
Time Age Me
Interested
Fast
Early
Early Age
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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 /
Grew
Life Start Me
Area
Astray
Bit
Began
Life Me Start
Degree
Wrong
Lead
Older
Mainly
Paths
Start
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I have learned in boxing to separate emotion from your job and the time in the ring. When it comes to anything that causes an emotional trigger I try to clear my head.
Anthony Yarde /
Causes
Time Your Anything
Trigger
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I don't need to worry about what other people are talking about me. Instead, I focus on the people talking positive and all the positive things that I know I am doing.
Anthony Yarde /
Positive Things
Positive Focus I Am
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Floyd Mayweather said it, perfect boxing career, undefeated, but he says that in life there's balance. He might have the perfect boxing career, but elsewhere there's loss.
Anthony Yarde /
Balance
Boxing
Elsewhere
Floyd Mayweather
Loss
Undefeated
Floyd
Says
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If someone said at the end of 2016 that I'd be ranked No.1 in England, have three titles and be ranked top ten in the world at the end of 2017, I would have said probably not.
Anthony Yarde /
Titles
Ranked
Top Ten
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When I told people my plan was to knock everyone out in the amateurs and become world champion as quickly as I could as a professional, a lot of people said it was impossible.
Anthony Yarde /
Amateur
World Champion
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A lot of people don't start something because of fear because they're scared of a negative outcome. Whereas I believe if you focus on negativity, you'll make nothing of your life.
Anthony Yarde /
Focus
Negative
Negativity
Scared
Outcome
Start
Whereas
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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 /
Account
Upwards
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My first boxing experience came at around 14. There was always confrontation in the area I grew up in. My mentality, I'll be honest, was if someone tries it with me, I want to be able to knock them out.
Anthony Yarde /
Confrontation
Mentality
Experience Always Me
Tries
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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.'
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Thank You
Boss
Boxing
Good Luck
Laughed
Luck
Pursue
Tomorrow
Good Tomorrow Me
Boxer
Good Boss Me
Thank
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Sometimes you found yourself in conflict or within an area where there's conflict. Some days you just find yourself in danger. Sometimes these things mould you and that's what I mean about hostile environments.
Anthony Yarde /
Conflict
Danger
Hostile
Mould
Yourself Sometimes Find
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Yes, my mum had a huge influence on my life and the love she had for me, the love we had between each other, did sway me to not do bad things. Sometimes they say the street raised you, but my mum did the raising.
Anthony Yarde /
Bad Things
Huge
Influence
Mum
Raised
Life Love Me
Did
Between
Street
Huge Influence
My Life
She
Sway
They Say
Yes
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So I was in football, athletics doing shot put and sprinting, and rugby all at the same time. Ultimately, I didn't know how serious you had to take one of them and I was just a kid wanting to do everything at once.
Anthony Yarde /
Athletics
Football
Rugby
Serious
Shot
Same Time
Sprinting
Ultimately
Wanting
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I was offered the Kovalev fight in 2018 but my manager and promoter agreed it wasn't the right time for me to be challenging for a world title then. I needed a few more tuneup fights, learning fights, and I'm fine with that.
Anthony Yarde /
Right Time
Agreed
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Promoter
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I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I'd be like 'how are these people doing it.' Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like 'how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?'
Anthony Yarde /
Arena
Remember When
Amateur
Boxer
Hall
Professionally
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Even after your fight on the night, you have loads of media you have to do and people expecting stuff from you and you want to make everyone proud. So afterwards I take three or four days off and I just want to eat and eat and eat.
Anthony Yarde /
Expecting
Afterwards
Loads
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I remember being in fights and being tremendously outnumbered and it escalating into something much worse. That's why I laughed when people asked if I was scared of going to Russia. If only they knew about some of the things I've seen.
Anthony Yarde /
Escalating
Laughed
Fights
Remember People Why
Outnumbered
Tremendously
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I sometimes look on YouTube and see people label videos 'Anthony Yarde sparring his trainer Ade' but that is not sparring, that's just practice. We practice getting attacked, countering and attacking your opponent back, in intelligent ways.
Anthony Yarde /
Intelligent
Practice
Sparring
Youtube
Attacked
Back
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In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in the gym every day, even at lunchtime and break times. I was thinking about boxing at that time but didn't think I would actually do it.
Anthony Yarde /
Eleven
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I've had 12 amateur fights, 18 professional fights and I've come to Russia, not just to Russia but to Chelyabinsk, home of Sergey Kovalev who has an impressive resume. The fact I've come to his backyard means I feel it will go down as one of the best results ever.
Anthony Yarde /
Amateur
Fights
Backyard
Resume
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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 /
Common Sense
Tactics
Fights
Composed
Learnt
Opponent
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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 /
Muhammad
Work Myself I Am
Ali
Chin
Comparing
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In a way, and I don't like to use this word, but delusion can be a good thing, it can be a bad thing, but when you genuinely believe in something, if you're putting in the effort to progress, you're going to progress more than someone who doesn't think they can do it.
Anthony Yarde /
Delusion
Effort
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Genuinely
Good Thing
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I used to have a short temper. I still have one and when I lose it, it's bad. I think it comes from what you see when you're young. Sometimes it builds from being scared as well. Once you lose it once, you find comfort in losing your temper. It becomes embedded in you.
Anthony Yarde /
Being Scared
Comfort
Embedded
Losing
Scared
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Builds
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I'm an example of someone that's got a big physique but doesn't touch any weights. I used to, but I realized when I used to touch weights I'd get a lot of soreness and mobility issues, so I'd get up and my shoulder would be hurting, not only the muscle but around the joint.
Anthony Yarde /
Mobility
Physique
Muscle
Hurting
Joint
Weights
Shoulder
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One day guns were pulled on us by older guys. My friend had gone to sell his moped and they took the moped, my friend's phone and some money. But all he got from my pocket was a tub of Vaseline. I remember him saying, 'Oh, he's a sweet boy' and throwing my Vaseline on the floor.
Anthony Yarde /
Older Guys
Throwing
Guns
Floor
My Friend
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Tub
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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 /
Bad Things
Conflict
Environment
Negative
Things Happen
Attracting
Gangs
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Nobody has really gone out to Russia to fight somebody like Kovalev. A lot of people are paying attention to it and can't believe what I'm doing. Some people think I'm going to pull out. I've seen comments saying 'Oh this is a good publicity stunt' and I was just laughing. They don't understand.
Anthony Yarde /
Laughing
Publicity
Russia
Comments
Paying
Pull
Some People
Stunt
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