Keith Thurman

“I remember just watching how hard my mom worked. She made sure we had food on the table and that we got gifts. Every time I got a new pair of shoes I felt so grateful, man.”

“It's natural for some people to just be natural.”

“I tell myself, 'You're great, you're powerful, you're strong. You're the greatest, most powerful, strongest fighter in the world.' I acknowledge my greatness. I bow down before my greatness. I inflate myself like that, and then I pop the balloon in a single sentence by saying: You can be beaten.”

“I like the freedom boxing has provided me, and I like to have people who I can trust around me. There's no need to make it complex when it's no longer simple.”

“The best part about fighting in New York is the New York fight fans, man - Vegas does not compare to the New York fight fans.”

“Shawn Porter is a terrific fighter and he's a great friend of mine. He's a devastating boxer-puncher like myself.”

“I'm one of the baddest men in the world of boxing.”

“I don't think about losing or worry about losing. I'm not afraid to let it go and I don't care if you beat me. If you do, that means you were the better man, but only elite fighters can beat me. There can't be shame in losing because you are up against great competition and there's always that chance.”

“Everybody in the welterweight division is shooting for that Mayweather sweepstakes.”

“I'm here to dominate the welterweight division.”

“Manny Pacquiao's just not a technical guy. He's a world class fighter and that's what always makes him one of the fan's favorites.”

“I don't need Mayweather, but it is an entertaining fight for the American public.”

“My dad was a kind of Kimbo Slice-type street fighter. He'd go out in the backyards up and down the Gulf Coast and duke it out. They'd wrap T-shirts around their hands for gloves, and take bets. He was a tremendous body puncher. One shot was usually all it took, so they called him 'One Time.'”

“I'm dedicated to living out my dream.”

“This business is a tightrope between ultimate ego and absolute devastation. You could lose. You could get knocked out. You could get in a car accident. I want to deal with the total truth of the situation. When you cross-reference the paths your life might take and modalities that might apply to you, I find I'm more at ease in a humble ground.”

“Well, I've shown the art of counter-punching throughout my career.”

“You can never hit someone to the body and cause them to go unconscious. To be hit in the body is an unconscious experience that one has to endure. Signals of pain shoot instantly from you liver to your brain telling you how uncomfortable it is to be in that situation. Then it's up to you to find out if you can stand up or not.”

“I happen to be a Sagittarius. That means we pull back the bow, we aim and fire at our target, and we aim to hit our target.”

“I want to do some stuff in America, see things here. Maybe rent a driver and an RV. I want to see the redwoods. Bucket list. Something that's been there forever, one of the wonders of the world.”

“Boxing and billiards, its all angles.”