Top 98 Quotes & Sayings by Terence Crawford - Page 2

I'm so Omaha that I wear 'OMAHA' on my trunks.

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.

A lot of people were wondering how I'd perform against a big, tall, rugged fighter like Jeff Horn. I think I handled it with an A-plus.

When you fight a shorter fighter, you attack with uppercuts.

No question Pacquiao is someone I would like to fight. But if it's not in front of me, then I am really not worried about it.

I was never the person to try and be the centre of attention or to talk a lot. I was always the person who, if you say something, I'd just punch you in your face. For real.

I'll fight anybody. I've been saying that for I don't know how long.

People will be the judge. They can rate the fights when I win.

Anyone who has seen my fights knows I'm going to put on an exciting performance and give you your money's worth.

I want the big fights.

My name itself is huge in Omaha. That's not a target I need to focus on because we know we can sell out.

I need that 147-pound belt.

Boxing is a dangerous, cruel sport. I love the sport, but I don't want to see my kids in the ring, potentially being hurt, with me not being able to do nothing to help them.

I feel like me fighting Pacquiao and beating him would boost my career higher than its ever gonna go.

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.

Each training camp I take a dog with me, when I'm running I take the dog with me. It gives me that extra inspiration and push.

No matter what the circumstances are, we the fighters need to speak up and make it be known we want to fight each other. We go to our promoters and managers and tell them to get it done because at the end of the day, we're the ones fighting, the ones making them the money.

I'm not worried about what the critics say, or how they feel I should go with my career.

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.

When I do nice things for people it just feels so natural. I have a big heart.

I believe I'm a pretty good fighter and have accomplished more than Lomachenko.

I showed that I can not get frustrated, that I could come from behind, that I can trade, if need-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 been making history for Omaha, Nebraska, since I started boxing professional, and it just keeps going and going and going.

When you get your name out there in Las Vegas and New York, that boosts your brand even more.

I don't worry about none of that stuff. All I care about is fighting. I really don't care about the pound-for-pound list. I just care about winning.

Whenever my kids have a tournament, or something going on, I make it a point to make sure I'm there for them every step of the way. That's real important to me.

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 don't want my kids to box - no way.

The kids are our future.

I told Gamboa he picked the wrong fighter and the wrong city, and I was right. I never felt any danger in the fight.

When everybody asked me when they were going to see more out of Terence Crawford, I always told them, 'Just put me in there with somebody.'

I don't even want to fight Pacquiao now because Pacquiao fought Jessie Vargas, Chris Algieri, Jeff Horn... They were talking that Terence Crawford wasn't a worthy enough name for Pacquiao. Why are those guys worthy when a fight with me and him would've been bigger than any of those?

Mayweather's got a lot of fans.

Andre Ward, he's one of my favorite fighters.

I showed that I could be a crowd-pleaser.

I showed that I can keep my mind focused.

When I got shot, it changed my life tremendously, and put me on the right path. And that's when everything started happening there for me with boxing and my family and just everything. My life just took a big turn and started going uphill.