Quotes from Anthony Yarde

You need to mourn, you need to be upset, to give yourself time to replenish. Then you use it all as fuel to get stronger.

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.

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.

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

The streets are tough but sport, and boxing especially, has put me on the right path in my life.

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.

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

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.

They say aim for the stars, but I want to aim beyond the stars.

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