Anthony Yarde Quotes

Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.

There's something very... spiritual about fighting. It's physically very challenging. It's for killing people, after all, so it's taught me how to look at something head on. It's like living - confronting something. Everything for me came from films.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Fighting is what I love to do.

I grew up in a rough neighborhood, so I fought a lot. Even when I was wrestling, if I lost a match, I always thought, That guy would never beat me in a fight.

The reality is this: Fighting isn't a team sport; it's an individual's sport.

I thought boxing was stupid.

I've gotten into two fights since I've begun studying the martial arts, and each time, I was worried I'd kill the guy. One of my teachers always told me I had good power but bad control.

I never fought in my life outside of a ring.

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

My father taught me how to fight when I was 5.

I'm a street fighter.

I didn't know how to throw a punch - why would I? Who knows how to throw a punch? Now I do it all the time, and it makes me feel strong.

When I get finished with fighting, I hope they ask the same questions. It's not my purpose to answer them. Boxing is the art of self-defense. I knock 'em out the first chance I get.

I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.

Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.

There's no such thing as a lucky punch. You throw to hurt someone and if you hurt someone, job done.

I've always been told that if you spar with another man, you try and emulate what a real fight is going to be like. So you go hard. It's how I've always been.

I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

Fighting was a problem for me in high school.

I was a quiet kid on the streets. The loudmouths would push me around but when I was boxing, I was beating them up and it felt good.

I know a little bit of fisticuffs.

I used to fight in school. I was a rough, athletic child. I always knew I could fight and, watching UFC, I was always fascinated by it.