Anthony Yarde Quotes

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

I am not trying my best because it is the Olympics. I try my best always.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

From the age of 6, when I won my first race in skiing, I was on the national ski teams, really until Olympics in '72, so I always had a lot of discipline and commitment to achieve as much as I could in good way. Competitiveness doesn't stop when you stop skiing.

I'm a five-time world champion in two different weight classes. Man, it's amazing.

I train and prepare for every contest the same so I can compete to the best of my abilities.

You have to play your 'A' game in every single match and that's a good thing.

We came to 135 to snatch a belt, and I felt like I definitely wanted to do that. I'd be a two division, three-time world champion. So I thought it was a great idea to do, so we did it.

It really has been just take it one day a time, one fight at a time, one training camp at a time, one year at a time.

Fighters don't just fight. Not the good ones who have long, long success. The guys who make championship runs. The guys who fight for world titles. They get fizzled out, chewed up and spit out like a revolving door and then the next guy or the next female comes in to take their spot.

The thing about discipline is that people misunderstand the word discipline. People think discipline in the dog world is punishment. Discipline is how you achieve what you want to achieve in life. You have to be very focused, very disciplined, very consistent, very diligent. All of those things.

There are no shortcuts. If you feel good, you'll look good, you'll play good. Work hard every day. No matter what your strengths and weaknesses, there's no substitute for hard work.

Champions aren't made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then willpower will be no problem.

If it was easy everyone would be a champion, so you've got to decide if you're that person that's going to be a champion.

If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

People who accomplish big things did small things well.

Discipline helps you finish a job, and finishing is what separates excellent work from average work.

Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

It's important to work hard - there's no short cut around that.

Whether I want to be at practice or not, I show up every day. Whether I'm healthy or I'm sick or hurt or tired, I show up every day.

I learned that hard work and self-discipline can overcome many obstacles.

Achievement requires more than a vision - it takes courage, resolve and tenacity. All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality