Top 118 Quotes & Sayings by Keith Thurman

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 would love to be the undisputed welterweight champion of the world - that's always been the big dream - but outside of that, it really just makes me happy whenever somebody approaches me and they say, 'You are truly one of my favorite fighters in the sport of boxing today.'

Sometimes it's good to not have money because it does make you work a little harder.

You can't have a No. 1 fighter when you have three undefeated champions. It's just the dumbest thing in the world. Let's just be honest. You can't have three undefeated champions of the world.

I gave my Prius to my sister and bought myself another Prius.

To beat a lion, you have to have the heart of a lion.

I call myself the world's best faker. It was hard to get piano lessons, it was hard to dedicate myself into reading the music, but it doesn't stop me from touching the keys.

Sometimes in greatness you fall short, only to rise again.

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.

I was never big on entourages. I've always been someone who does things on his own. I like to travel and go places on my own.

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.

I believe God, too, has a sense of humor.

I'm just Keith Thurman, and I just enjoy being the person that I am. I enjoy some of the spotlight, but there are moments where it can be a little overwhelming.

People who know Keith Thurman know I'm one of the most exciting welterweights in the division - I don't think anything has changed that.

Ben believed in me when I was a little boy, when no one else was around, so it's why I wear his name on my trunks every time I step in the ring. I want the world to know they're watching a Ben Getty fighter.

There's a time and a place for everything. There's a time to sleep, wake up, there's a time to be graceful, and there's a time to be aggressive.

I'm a hop-around kind of guy. I jump into hobbies, and I jump out of them.

It's the undisputed title I want.

At the end of the day, you know, Keith Thurman is just not a 9-to-5 kind of guy.

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 have a beautiful story with my original trainer from the age of 7 to the age of 20 when he passed away. Ben Getty believed in me before anybody believed in me. That I'd be champion of the world, that I'd be a pay per view fighter, an exciting fighter.

Failure does not scare me.

There's no real rush to answer the questions you face. To apply the best intellectual answer, you should clear your mind, stay calm, assess the question as well as you can to be comfortable, and then respond.

I'm somewhat of a go-to guy. I'm reliable. You can trust me.

A lot of fighters have skills, they have talent. The one thing that you can't train is a strong mind.

I guess maybe there is two sides of me - the nice guy and then the beast within.

Keith 'One Time' Thurman is a dangerous man.

I've always wanted be as great as I could possibly be at the sport of boxing.

With or without knockouts, every single one of my opponents has always felt my power. I am confident with my power, I know that as soon as I hit them they know that they're not fighting against the likes of some other opponents they have fought in their past.

I've always known what I wanted for myself. I was 10 years old when I said nobody is going to be the boss of me. And I shocked a lot of people with that statement. I mean, I can barely listen to my own mother - how am I going to have a boss, you know?

To promote a fight with Adrien Broner would obviously be an exciting trash-talking event and one that I believe would enjoy.

Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity - I admire wise men. Some of my favorite forms of history are religious history, what the sages say from the top of the mountain and how they view life.

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.

19 Keith Thurman has to remind you who Keith Thurman is, why Keith Thurman is one of the baddest men at 147, why you need to always mention me when you mention the others... and, hopefully, put my name first.

I believe in the spirit of God because I believe in the spirit of man.

There's no quit in Keith Thurman.

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.

Boxing and billiards, its all angles.

Ben Getty knew boxing. Even if I didn't believe in myself... he knew what he was talking about. For him to believe means I should believe it, too.

It's in my dreams, being champion and staying champion and being one of the major champions in the sport.

That's what I'm trying to manifest, greatness within myself, no matter who they put in the ring.

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.

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.

I'm an imperfect person. I've let anger, jealousy, all the emotions, get the best of me. If I go into books, word by word, little by little, they help re-center and re-ground me and put me on the right path. Life is a journey. I'm very focused on the things I do and have learned not to be pressured.

I'm not afraid to lose. I'm here for the competition. I'm here to make greatness.

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.

Keith Thurman No. 1, Errol Spence No. 2 and everything else is debatable.

I try to give people good things to talk about.

Sometimes I feel like I'm living a dream.

I'm different, that's all. Everyone is different in their own ways - but I'm maybe a little bit more different in a little bit more different kind of way.

I'm dedicated to living out my dream.

I show up, I make weight. I stay true to the contract.

I mean, Terence Crawford and Errol Spence... that's a great fight. But Keith Thurman vs. Errol Spence and Keith Thurman vs. 'Bud' Crawford, I think those are better fights.

Once you fill yourself with love, then you will have love to give to the rest of the world. This is my philosophy.

I dedicate some of my power to Mike Tyson. I watched a lot of film on Mike Tyson. Then we started taking notes on Muhammad Ali. We took notes on Sugar Ray Leonard. What was that fighter known for? Why was he so difficult to beat in his time, in his era and, you know, why was he at the top?

I just enjoy life in a way where I like being my own person.

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

There's different kind of champions. There's the champion that becomes champion and they're not champion for long. And then you have the guy who becomes champion and he stays at the top for like a decade. And those fighters tend to be very intelligent.

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.

Mike Tyson loved throwing hooks to the body and then coming up, even with the same hand... He knew that he was on the inside, and from there he had the perfect angle to come right up instead of going around the elbows.