Quotes from Keith Thurman

Failure does not scare me.

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.

The life of the sport is to participate for the fans, to hear the uproar, to hear the cheers.

I just love achieving my goals. I'm a goal seeker.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I think Ben Getty would have been a tremendous fan of Canelo Alvarez.

Boxing and billiards, its all angles.

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?

Robert Guerrero was a tremendous warrior.

As a fighter I hold a certain level of pride and can only deal so much with the politics.

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.

It was my dream as a kid was to make history.

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

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.

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

I'm dedicated to living out my dream.

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.

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