10 Things Terence Crawford Can’t Live Without

What's up everybody?

This is Terence Crawford and this is my 10 essentials.

[upbeat music]

This is the WBO World Championship Welterweight Belt.

This is the belt that I've been having ever since 2018.

They put my face on this one. WBO Welterweight Champion.

Well, to be honest, I don't ever really pick it up.

They kind of like trophies.

Once you used to getting them, you got 'em.

I just keep 'em in a safe place

and just, you know, let 'em shine on their own.

Well these just some regular gloves

that I fight in, they eight ounce.

It's always the same weight.

147 and below is always at eight ounces.

I actually started boxing when I was seven years old.

You know, I really didn't want to box.

I just wanted to come in there and horse play around

and break stuff and hit the speed bag

and hit the bags without the gloves.

So me and Midge developed a different relationship

when I came back to the gym with a different mind state,

I was just training and you know, he took me under his wing

and he'd come and get me after school.

I'd be like, oh man, here go Midge.

He'd make me just watch boxing tapes,

boxing tapes, boxing tapes.

We not a big city known for boxing.

So I always promised if I ever became World Champion,

I would bring it back to Omaha for them to witness it,

for them to participate in it and for them to experience it.

I held my word by opening up a gym

that's free to the youth, not only to box,

but they can come there, get tutored, they can come there

and just train just for self defense purposes

or they can try boxing.

But I don't try to push boxing on the the young kids

because I actually don't want my kids to box.

But if that was something that they would like to do,

then I would support 'em.

I'm actually in the Dart League and we just won City.

One of my friends, I actually taught him how to play darts.

He started like really trying to learn the game

because he like me.

He like, all right, well I'm tired of getting beat.

So, you know, he was playing every day.

By that time he was just like, man,

you wanna go play on a dart league?

And I was like, Dart league?

I just started spending thousands of dollars on darts

and dart accessories

and dart boards thinking that was going to help me.

They all just tell me like, you got a good shot.

You just need to practice more.

Darts is great because it gets you focused,

you know, you gotta focus up

and you gotta control your breathing and you gotta be steady

and consistent with every throw.

My coach Bomac and James Henley taught me how

to play in the same way with boxing.

You can go three ways straightforward to the right

or you can go to the left

or you can play defense.

Ping-pong paddle.

My cousins, they was always playing ping-pong.

They stopped playing basketball with me.

I decided to go over there

and try it out, got my butt kicked.

I went to go buy a ping-pong paddle.

I went to go buy a ping-pong table

and I just start practicing.

It is great for boxing as well

because it's good for hand eye coordination.

I got good at it

and I started beating everybody that was beating me.

That's one thing that I can't do.

I can't just let somebody beat me in something

and just call it a quits.

If I'm gonna do it, I gotta be the best at it.

Yeah, this is my personal paddle.

I actually, this was a gift

because I was in this celebrity match

and I actually won a tournament.

They actually gave me this paddle.

They gave me a table with my logo on it.

[Camera Man] Not bad. Yeah.

[Camera Man] For your first ping pong tournament.

Yeah. Not bad.

My second one, I lost.

The camera.

Now y'all on camera.

I'm not the type of guy that always pull out his phone

and you know, record stuff.

But at the same time, I be regretting it sometimes

because when you sit back

and you watch other people, they have the memories

and they have things documented from 10 plus years back.

You be like, dang man, I should have did that.

It lasts forever. Certain memories you can't get back

unless you see a picture.

You remember everything that happened that day.

You know, you see people that's not here anymore that you

still got to hold onto 'cause you can hear their voice

or you can see they smile

or you could see the interaction

that you had with each other.

So yeah, pictures is definitely deeper than, you know

what I used to think they was.

It ain't too much

I can really put in the same category as boxing,

but basketball was always something fun for me to do

because I was one of the shortest persons on the court.

But I was always the person with the most heart.

I hold everybody accountable.

If I'm playing 110%,

y'all gotta play 110%

because if I'm going

to be out there playing, I'm playing to win.

My favorite player as a kid was actually Jordan and Kobe.

I admired them for the fundamentals to the mentality

that they take and practice and on the court.

The never lose mentality, the never give up,

the it ain't over until it's over.

When we got a little downtime, some people,

they ain't good at ping-pong, they ain't good at pool,

but they good at ping-pong and pool on the phone.

So they'll pull out the phone and send you a game

and you'll look at 'em and be like, What?

Be like, What? Let's go.

We all be over there, you know, playing,

competing against each other.

I listen to a lot of music.

When you in the gym with me

and I get to play my playlist,

you'd be surprised

'cause you'd be like, wow, this dude,

like he really listens to that.

You might get some country.

You might get some rock,

Jazz, R&B, Gospel.

We listened to Gospel this morning. I just love music.

That's mainly what I listen to the most is R&B

and Chaka Khan and Anita Baker.

[upbeat music]

The game is something that's, you know,

I picked up on playing Call of Duty to buy time

in training camp to keep my mind

off of everything that's going on.

On my downtime sometimes I like to play the game just

to get a mental break from going into a training camp.

You know, when we playing War Zone

and we up there trying to catch a dub

and your teammates doing something that you don't want to do

and y'all start feuding with one another,

it's definitely intense.

It gets your blood pressure high.

My family is like my everything.

When I look at my son, when I look at my daughters,

when I look at my mama, my daddy

and my grandma, my grandpas, my sisters,

my nieces, my nephew.

They all know I'm doing it for them.

If I was doing it for myself,

I would've been gave up on myself a long time ago.

For my boys and my daughters,

be that person that they look up to,

that they be inspired by, you know?

And that's something that I love about them is

that they see it.

I feel as if they changed me in ways

that I could have never been changed without them.

Well, 2018 they renamed the street that I grew up on,

that my grandma still lives.

My sister live on the street, which I bought the house.

My uncle live on the street, which I bought the house.

My cousin live on the street, which I bought the house

and you know, my mom, my grandma, it's a street

that means a lot because it's so family.

My grandma been there for so long,

but when people come down the street, they be like,

Man, that's the big house.

That's your grandma street?

But now they be like, Your street?

So yeah, that's a sweet taste.

[gentle music]