Keith Thurman
That's what I'm trying to manifest, greatness within myself, no matter who they put in the ring.
Losing to a Hall of Famer, a legend, Manny Pacquiao, it is what it is. It was a great fight and the fans loved it. I lost a title but I gained respect with how I fought that night.
There's no quit in Keith Thurman.
At the end of the day, you know, Keith Thurman is just not a 9-to-5 kind of guy.
I was rebellious, I was a dreamer, and I didn't know it at a young age, but I've always been an entrepreneur and I was going to pursue boxing and hope that boxing opens up doors that allows me to live out my life as an entrepreneur. And luckily for me, I've had great success, and I believe that I will have a life after boxing as well.
Failure does not scare me.
The life of the sport is to participate for the fans, to hear the uproar, to hear the cheers.
Everybody in the welterweight division is shooting for that Mayweather sweepstakes.
I'm here to entertain the world of boxing.
I'm here to dominate the welterweight division.
Shawn Porter is a terrific fighter and he's a great friend of mine. He's a devastating boxer-puncher like myself.
Robert Guerrero was a tremendous warrior.
A lot of opinions just really don't get to me. If anything, some of them were humorous and my favorite, you know - I'm Keith 'One Time' Thurman. I'm Keith 'Run Time' Thurman, Keith 'Sometime' Thurman, Keith 'Once Upon a Time' Thurman. That was pretty amusing.
I'm proud to be champion and I always want to be champion.
I like to carry some nerves with me for each fight.
There are beautiful things about the sport of boxing and there are ugly things.
Everybody knows the day I beat Diego Chaves, I became the WBA interim world titlist, which made me the No. 1 contender for whomever was the WBA titlist.
As a fighter I hold a certain level of pride and can only deal so much with the politics.
Boxing is a sport, but it's also a business.
Whether it's Marcos Maidana, Shawn Porter, Amir Khan or Kell Brook, there are a lot of fights out there that I think would be very interesting for me, my career and the sport of boxing outside of Floyd Mayweather.
I don't need Mayweather, but it is an entertaining fight for the American public.
I'm one of the baddest men in the world of boxing.
I never fit into any box, even in my boxing style, and when you try to put a label on me it's like I have to disprove the label. I'm weird like that.
I've worked really hard to hurt people in my life so I admire people who heal people.
I dropped out of high school so I could attend another kind of school, an internship of champions. I dropped out to live my dreams.
I'm just not a team sports guy. I can't rely on somebody else for victory. I can't stand if they fumble a ball. I can't stand if they move offsides. I can't stand not being in the game.
A lot of people knew at the national tournaments that I was a big puncher. We were known as 'Samson,' the boy with the long hair.
I think Ben Getty would have been a tremendous fan of Canelo Alvarez.
I've always wanted be as great as I could possibly be at the sport of boxing.
I want to show fans what I do best, which is hurt people in the ring and create knockouts. And at the end of the day, that's what fans want to see.
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've loved boxing due to the history of boxing. It was one of the great American pastimes.
I'm a hobbiest. There's a lot of hobbies that I have. But I've never devoted anything that I've devoted my time and effort to the sport of boxing. It consumes who I am as a person and as a fighter.
I just love achieving my goals. I'm a goal seeker.
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.
Well, I've shown the art of counter-punching throughout my career.
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 believe God, too, has a sense of humor.
I enjoy talking trash.
I'm trying to create a career for myself, but not just any career, I'm trying to create a legacy.
In the midst of having great fights, sometimes you have good fights and sometimes you just have a fight.
I'm 'One Time' for a reason.
Nobody is trying to avoid Shawn Porter. Look at all the named fighters that fought Shawn Porter, because nobody is avoiding Shawn Porter. Nobody is scared of Shawn Porter. Shawn Porter can beat you. He's tough, durable and comes to win but nobody's scared.
I'd get beat up a lot early on. I wasn't the strongest, fastest or most skilled guy there, but I had a lot of heart and kept showing up. I just started getting better and by the time I was 13 I was knocking older kids and amateurs out.
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.
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.
I'm an exciting fighter and I always live up to the hype, unlike some other fighters who disappoint.
You cannot forget who Keith Thurman is.
I have power, but focus on the overall athletic event - the technique you have to execute before acquiring the knockout. You have to play the game before you hit a home run, right?