Top 60 Terence Crawford Quotes

This is not a sport for me – I live boxing. I’ve been boxing since I was seven years old.

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

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

I showed that I could be a crowd-pleaser.

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.

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.

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.

There’s always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don’t know what they are talking about.

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

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?

I feel confident matching up with anybody.

I am a fighter and I will fight anybody.

I don’t want my kids to box – no way.

Where I come from we believe in an eye for an eye. That’s what we do. That’s just the way it is.

I showed that I can fight without boxing, that I can take a punch.

My job is to go in there and fight who is in front of me.

The kids are our future.

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.

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.

Who’s on my radar? I don’t have a radar. I always look at myself as a top athlete. They come after me. I don’t go after them because I’m where they want to be.

I just want to keep being successful.

My goal is to get all these fighters that everybody say I’m running from inside the ring with me.

You never know what the future might hold.

I don’t take anything for granted.

I always have the ability to believe in myself when nobody else does.

I always knew I could fight.

Amir Khan is a great fighter, I have a lot of respect for him.

I never put it to where I say, ‘I’m just this big pay-per-view star,’ or ‘I wanna be the No. 1 pay-per-view star that got all the ratings.’ No, I was just like, ‘I’m gonna be a world champion. That’s what I’m gonna be.’

I can box, I can bang, I can switch, I can punch, I’m not slow.

I just have to focus on what I can do and keep making a living and keeping my name up there as the best pound-for-pound fighter.

I need those meaningful fights, the fights that everyone wants to see. That would help my legacy a long way.

I’m a fighter. I’m not a promoter and I’m not a manager so I leave that up to my manager and my promoter and I just fight.

I showed that I can not get frustrated, that I could come from behind, that I can trade, if need-be.

I feel like I’m a great fighter and have been proving it over and over again, running through all types of fighters, and I’ve passed every test with flying colors.

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.

I have cleared the eyeball test and still haven’t gotten my just due. That drives me to become more and more successful because of the lack of everything they have been giving me.

As soon as I put on gloves, I knew. I felt heart and determination. It’s in you, not on you. I just loved to fight and I knew that it was going to take me where I needed to go. I never had any doubt.

God blessed me with the talent I’ve been blessed with.

I don’t ever think about, ‘Aw, man, my legacy. My legacy this.’ No, I just want to fight the best fights out there to fight just to prove to the world that I’m the best fighter in the world.

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.

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

I want to talk about how great of a father I am. How I never miss any of my kids’ wrestling tournaments or big events like birthdays or holidays. I’m always there for anything to do with my kids.

It’s always special to fight.

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 have a lot of family members and friends that depend on me.

I want the big fights.

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.

My first goal was to become world champion and I did that against Ricky Burns at 135. Once I conquered that, I set myself another goal and another goal.

I’m the best fighter in the division and I’m always willing to prove it.

I feel like I get better every fight.

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

You’ve got to remember where you come from.

I just want to leave a mark on the sport of boxing so people talk about me like they talk about the other great champions before me. That’s my goal before I retire.

Mayweather’s got a lot of fans.

I need that 147-pound belt.

I’m just ready to go out there and prove to everybody that I’m not as small as everybody says I am.

You think we got it bad in Omaha, or in any city in the United States, and then you go to a different country and you see how bad they got it. You give those people a balloon and they’ll cherish it like you gave them a chunk of gold.

I learned patience. I’m not a real patient guy, but with me trusting in my coach, my managers and my team, I just trust the process and just continue to stay patient and just follow suit.