To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
There are certain fighters that if they want to remain relevant they will have to get through me.
Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.
I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.
Mike Tyson has to be one of my greatest all time fighters. Muhammad Ali. I like going back looking at the classics like Roberto Duran. I like the old time fighters, when you had a champion in the old days you really had a true champion. Muhammad Ali would take on anybody. You had the greats fighting everybody.
When a 140 pounder that moves up fights a 140 pounder moved up and they move up it's a catch weight.
All I ever wanted was to be like Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, Tommy Hearns, Hagler and Sugar Ray Leonard. Back in the day American people knew who they were and I want them to now know Keith 'One Time' Thurman.
Wallowing was for elephants, depressing people and depressing elephants
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.
Bodies come and go, ages come and go, yugas come and go, eternities come and go. Selves come and go.