A biography for Terence Crawfordhasn’t been written yet.
“I train really hard for each and every fight. I never take anyone lightly.”
“I want the big fights.”
“It takes two people to fight, and it takes two companies to sit down and figure it out and decide what network we're going to fight on, where we're going to fight, what the purses are going to be.”
“My mum has a lot of pain in her heart to where love is pain for her. But I teach my kids love is beautiful.”
“I showed that I could be a crowd-pleaser.”
“I completely put all my time and effort into my kids and once I stepped foot in the ring, that's who I fight for. And that's who I work extra hard for when I'm tired, to feed my family and to make sure that they are going to be alright after boxing.”
“I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven't gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.”
“You've got to remember where you come from.”
“I never had the opportunity to run up and hug my mom and tell her 'I love you,' and she tells me she loves me and hugs me back. I would want her to come to my fights and support me, but it never would happen.”
“There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.”
“As I got older I learned how to control my temper a little more. Boxing helped me a lot and most definitely when I had my first child it helped me tremendously.”
“I'm so Omaha that I wear 'OMAHA' on my trunks.”
“I been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.”
“I had to fight those type of fights which were high risk, low reward and at the start, I never could get the fights I really wanted.”
“I'll fight anybody. I've been saying that for I don't know how long.”
“Man. I've been through a lot as a kid. But at the same time that upbringing just made me stronger and made me more determined to make it out of where I made it out from and just fight extra hard to not go back.”
“I just have to focus on what I can do and keep making a living and keeping my name up there as the best pound-for-pound fighter.”
“When you start boxing when you're 7 years old, that's your dream, to become world champion, and after that you want to become something bigger than world champion.”