I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

So far the biggest accomplishment I give myself is getting the silver in the Olympic Trials. Even though it's kind of a defeat. Not too many people make it that far. I do see it as an accomplishment and one of my greatest.

I only want to fight real champions; I want to fight real opponents, so that I can climb the latter.

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.

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.

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

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