Anyone that steps into the ring with me is facing a real welterweight.

My boxing inspiration is to one day become world champion, to go as far as I can go and see where it takes me.

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

When I say I'm a true welterweight I'm talking about every fighter that has ever moved into the welterweight division.

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.

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.

I tell people all the time, nobody wants to be hit. You have to trick a man, to hit a man.