Anthony Yarde

I've knocked out a lot of my opponents.

I always saw myself going down the path of success.

I'm confident and when you have power like me, it relaxes your nerves.

Boxing is not a sport where you can be at a low level at all.

I could fight for a world title and win it, but it is about getting to that stage and staying there.

I believe whatever you put in your mind is going to happen.

The Rock is somebody that every kid in my era grew up watching. Legend. His success is not only in wrestling but what he's done after it has been spectacular.

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.

I am not looking at Dec Spelman as if he is a fighter I can just walk through. I don't go out looking for knockouts.

Each fight of my career I take just as important as the last. And I will keep it that way.

I remember when I used to go to York Hall and just watch, and I'd be like 'how are these people doing it.' Even though I was an amateur boxer at the time, I was like 'how are these guys fighting professionally in this arena?'

You have to trust in the people you have around you.

I believe when you have your hands on four or five pots at once, you can never have a firm grip on one pot. My one pot is being a boxer.

I don't listen to people who doubt me.

No shame in losing to an all-time great.

I'm going to Russia to knockout Kovalev - it's that simple.

I was living a dangerous life before I started boxing.

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

I've been listening 50 cent's audiobook, 'The Hustler.'

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.

In year seven and eight I was very small, but I was muscular. Year nine, ten and eleven I got massive. I was in the gym every day, even at lunchtime and break times. I was thinking about boxing at that time but didn't think I would actually do it.

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 used to have a short temper. I still have one and when I lose it, it's bad. I think it comes from what you see when you're young. Sometimes it builds from being scared as well. Once you lose it once, you find comfort in losing your temper. It becomes embedded in you.

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.

Not any disrespect to Kovalev or anything but I'm not focussed on Kovalev, I'm not a fan of his.

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

Idras Elba was from Forest Gate - where I am from - there are a lot of great people around if they can be given a chance or have the belief.

People talk about world title offers, but boxing is not a sprint, it's a marathon.

Sparring with southpaws have been different but nothing to worry me.

I was never a weapons person, you're a coward if you have to walk with a weapon, be a man and fight.

Floyd Mayweather said it, perfect boxing career, undefeated, but he says that in life there's balance. He might have the perfect boxing career, but elsewhere there's loss.

Mark Prince is a massive inspiration to me, he has been since I started boxing.

I've seen people get robbed, seen people get shot with my own eyes, for pointless petty crimes.

Even after your fight on the night, you have loads of media you have to do and people expecting stuff from you and you want to make everyone proud. So afterwards I take three or four days off and I just want to eat and eat and eat.

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.

I doubt Picasso ever painted a picture in an hour, he took his time, looked at every detail and made sure it was perfect.

Mayweather has been hit the least out of every world champion in history and that is the art of the sport; to hit and not get hit.

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.

I believe some things are labelled impossible until they are done.

I just say to myself I'm going to be a better fighter day to day. That's my thing.

If someone said at the end of 2016 that I'd be ranked No.1 in England, have three titles and be ranked top ten in the world at the end of 2017, I would have said probably not.

I love pizza, I love Chinese food, Caribbean food, I love Italian.

I love my chocolate, I love my dessert, I love my cookie dough.

I'd fight anybody. People are turning me down and I know that for a fact.

It doesn't matter about the man behind the belt. For me, it's about the title.

As fighters we want to do the best we can, so we visualize what we want to happen.

I haven't done no trash talking. And, I don't do trash talking.

I'm a strong believer in destiny. I believe you are born to do certain things.

I remember being in fights and being tremendously outnumbered and it escalating into something much worse. That's why I laughed when people asked if I was scared of going to Russia. If only they knew about some of the things I've seen.