Quotes from Anthony Yarde

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.

I believe when you rush your work, you're not thinking about what you're doing. That's when you make mistakes.

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.

As fighters we want to do the best we can, so we visualize what we want to happen.

No shame in losing to an all-time great.

It doesn't matter about the man behind the belt. For me, it's about the title.

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.

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.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

It was boxing, but I also feel it was my drive and ambition that kept me away from the stupidness, and my calculation.

I'm a strong believer in destiny. I believe you are born to do certain things.

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

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

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.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

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.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.

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.

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.

I love my chocolate, I love my dessert, I love my cookie dough.

I train hard, but having a fight on the cards so often gives me targets and focus.

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.

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