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“I wasn't good at football when I was young but I made myself get good at football because of my mentality.”
“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.”
“I haven't done no trash talking. And, I don't do trash talking.”
“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.”
“I want to make all my family proud, particularly my mum, Sonia.”
“I train hard, but having a fight on the cards so often gives me targets and focus.”
“People always say 'I will fight for a world title in a year' but that sort of thing is not down to me. I feel my job is to be ready when it comes, I just need to know it is coming.”
“Mark Prince is a massive inspiration to me, he has been since I started boxing.”
“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'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.”
“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.”
“Not any disrespect to Kovalev or anything but I'm not focussed on Kovalev, I'm not a fan of his.”
“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.”
“It was boxing, but I also feel it was my drive and ambition that kept me away from the stupidness, and my calculation.”
“I've been listening 50 cent's audiobook, 'The Hustler.'”
“I always saw myself going down the path of success.”
“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.”
“My contact with my dad's side of my family got less after we stopped living together, but they were in my life.”
“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 don't want to blow my own trumpet but the aim of the game is to hit and not get hit and that is what I am doing.”