Anthony Yarde Quotes

I learned very early on once I started boxing as a kid that if you go into the ring emotionally charged you make mistakes. It's a mental game, it's a chess match, you've got to think, you've got to strategise and make tactical decisions.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

I've got to control my emotions. When I fight out of emotions, it doesn't end up so well.

As a kid I lost my temper quite easily and tended to look away from the game itself. Now I know how to manage that and get the best out of myself.

I have learned in boxing to separate emotion from your job and the time in the ring. When it comes to anything that causes an emotional trigger I try to clear my head.

Keeping my emotions in check translates to me playing a lot better.

It's our job to make sure the players are ready to play at a high level. Part of that is making sure that the emotion is in check.

When your opponent is hurrying recklessly, you must act contrarily and keep calm. You must not be influenced by the opponent.

I would say I stay pretty calm. Don't let the game get too fast on me. I try to keep my emotions in check, I guess, so I don't show that anything fazes me out there. And I try to take it one pitch at a time.

My dad is the person who taught me how important the mental side of the game is. He studied kung fu growing up and he taught me how to meditate when I was a kid.

I am probably a bit numb upstairs, which is sometimes a good thing.

I think more with my head - things are 90 per cent in your head, and everything else comes after that.

Since I was a young kid, I have always been calm on the ball. That comes down to awareness as well. When you have good awareness and you know what's going on around you, you don't need to panic. There is no point. It just makes things worse. You have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.

Great athletes last because they let the mental do all the work. What we do as hoofers is not so much a physical strain as everybody thinks. It's more of a mental stretch.

I like to take the floor apart mentally. I like to visualize an opponent going for you.

The mental game is what separates the good players from the great players. So anything I can do to get that mental edge to help me stay my best, I'm gonna try and do it.

Everyone knows how to play tennis, but it's the mind that really controls everything.

Every rider trains their muscles but few train their brain.

If someone drops a catch, and I get angry, will that catch come back to us? It won't. Therefore, it is better to be cool, because that helps in better performance.

When I'm totally in tune with myself, and I'm flowing, it don't matter who I'm fighting; that's just a problem for anybody.

The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.

I have showed things in sparring and camp that I don't show in fights.