Boxing champion Terence Crawford joins GQ Sports to reveal his 10 Essentials. The American professional boxer breaks down his daily essentials: from his boxing gloves to his basketball (“I hold everybody accountable, if I’m playing 110%, y'all got to play 110%”). Watch the full episode of GQ Sports’ 10 Essentials, as Terence Crawford reveals 10 things he can’t live without.
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00:00What's up, everybody?
00:01This is Terrence Crawford,
00:03and this is my 10 essentials.
00:04This is the WBO World Championship welterweight belt.
00:17This is the belt that I've been having ever since 2018.
00:21They put my face on this one.
00:23WBO welterweight champion.
00:25Well, to be honest, I don't never really pick it up.
00:29They kind of like trophies.
00:30Once you used to getting them, you got them.
00:32I just keep them in a safe place
00:34and just, you know, let them shine on their own.
00:39Well, these just some regular gloves that I fight in.
00:42They eight ounce.
00:43It's always the same weight.
00:45147 and below, it's always at eight ounces.
00:48I actually started boxing when I was seven years old.
00:51You know, I really didn't want to box.
00:53I just wanted to come in there and horseplay around
00:55and break stuff and hit the speed bag
00:58and hit the bags without the gloves.
00:59So me and Mitch developed a different relationship
01:03when I came back to the gym with a different mind state.
01:06I was just training and, you know,
01:08he took me under his wing
01:09and he'll come and get me after school.
01:12I'd be like, oh man, here go Mitch.
01:14He'll make me just watch boxing tapes,
01:17boxing tapes, boxing tapes.
01:19We not a big city known for boxing.
01:22So I always promised if I ever became world champion,
01:25I will bring it back to Omaha
01:27for them to witness it,
01:28for them to participate in it
01:30and for them to experience it.
01:31I held my word by opening up a gym
01:34that's free to the youth,
01:35not only to box, but they can come there and get tutored.
01:39They can come there and just train
01:41just for self defense purposes,
01:44or they can try boxing,
01:45but I don't try to push boxing on the young kids
01:49because I actually don't want my kids to box.
01:52But if that was something that they would like to do,
01:55then I would support them.
01:59I'm actually in a dart league and we just won city.
02:01One of my friends, I actually taught him how to play darts.
02:04He start like really trying to learn the game
02:08because he like me.
02:10He like, all right, well, I'm tired of getting beat.
02:13So, you know, he was playing every day.
02:15By that time he was just like,
02:17man, you want to go play on a dart league?
02:18And I was like, dart league?
02:20I just started spending thousands of dollars on darts
02:23and dart accessories and dart boards,
02:26thinking that was going to help me.
02:27They all just tell me like, you got a good shot,
02:29you just need to practice more.
02:31Darts is great because it gets you focused.
02:34You know, you got to focus up
02:35and you got to control your breathing.
02:37You got to be steady and consistent with every throw.
02:43My coach Volmack and James Henley taught me how to play.
02:46In the same way with boxing,
02:48you can go three ways, straightforward, to the right,
02:52or you can go to the left, or you can play defense.
02:57Ping pong paddle.
02:59My cousins, they was always playing ping pong
03:02and they stopped playing basketball with me.
03:04I decided to go over there and try it out.
03:06Got my butt kicked.
03:08I went to go buy a ping pong paddle.
03:10I went to go buy a ping pong table
03:12and I just started practicing.
03:14It's great for boxing as well
03:16because it's good for hand and eye coordination.
03:18I got good at it and I started beating everybody
03:21that was beating me.
03:22That's one thing that I can't do.
03:24I can't just let somebody beat me at something
03:27and just call it a quiz.
03:28If I'm gonna do it, I got to be the best at it.
03:30Yeah, this my personal paddle.
03:32I actually, this was a gift
03:34because I was in this celebrity match
03:37and I actually won a tournament.
03:38They actually gave me this paddle.
03:40They gave me a table with my logo on it.
03:46Yeah, not bad.
03:47My second one I lost.
03:52The camera.
03:54Now y'all on camera.
03:56I'm not the type of guy that always pull out his phone
03:59and record stuff, but at the same time,
04:02I be regretting it sometimes
04:03because when you sit back and you watch other people,
04:07they have the memories and they have things documented
04:11from 10 plus years back.
04:14You're like, dang, man, I should've did that.
04:17It lasts forever.
04:18Certain memories you can't get back
04:20unless you see a picture.
04:21You remember everything that happened that day.
04:23You see people that's not here anymore
04:26that you still got to hold on to
04:29because you can hear their voice
04:30or you can see their smile.
04:32You can see the interaction that you had with each other.
04:35So yeah, pictures is definitely deeper
04:38than what I used to think they was.
04:44It ain't too much I can really put
04:47in the same category as boxing,
04:50but basketball was always something fun for me to do
04:53because I was one of the shortest persons on the court,
04:57but I was always the person with the most heart.
04:59I hold everybody accountable.
05:01If I'm playing 110%, y'all got to play 110%
05:06because if I'm gonna be out there playing,
05:09I'm playing to win.
05:10My favorite player as a kid was actually Jordan and Kobe.
05:14I admired them for the fundamentals
05:16to the mentality that they take and practice
05:20and on the court, the never lose mentality,
05:23the never give up, the it ain't over until it's over.
05:29When we got a little downtime,
05:30some people, they ain't good at ping pong,
05:33they ain't good at pool,
05:35but they good at ping pong and pool on the phone.
05:37So they'll pull out the phone and send you a game
05:40and you'll look at them and be like, what?
05:42Be like, what?
05:43Let's go.
05:44We'll all be over there playing,
05:47competing against each other.
05:48I listen to a lot of music.
05:50When you in the gym with me and I get to play my playlist,
05:53you'd be surprised because you'd be like,
05:55wow, this dude, he really listens to that?
05:59You might get some country.
06:01You might get some rock, jazz, R&B, gospel.
06:06We listened to gospel this morning.
06:08I just love music.
06:09That's mainly what I listen to the most
06:12is R&B and Shaq Khan, Anita Baker.
06:20The game is something that's,
06:23you know, I picked up on playing Call of Duty
06:26to buy time and training camp
06:28to keep my mind off of everything that's going on.
06:31On my downtime, sometimes I like to play the game
06:33just to get a mental break from going into a training camp.
06:37You know, when we playing war zone
06:39and we up there trying to catch a dub
06:42and your teammates doing something that you don't want to do
06:45and y'all start feuding with one another,
06:47it's definitely intense.
06:49It gets your blood pressure high.
06:53My family is like my everything.
06:57When I look at my son, when I look at my daughters,
07:00when I look at my mama, my daddy, my grandma,
07:03my grandpas, my sisters, my nieces, my nephew,
07:07they all know I'm doing it for them.
07:09If I was doing it for myself,
07:10I would have been gave up on myself a long time ago.
07:14For my boys and my daughters,
07:16be that person that they look up to,
07:18that they be inspired by, you know,
07:20and that's something that I love about them
07:24is that they see it.
07:26I feel as if they changed me in ways
07:28that I could have never been changed without them.
07:34With 2018, they renamed the street that I grew up on
07:39that my grandma still lives.
07:41My sister live on the street, which I bought the house.
07:45My uncle live on the street, which I bought the house.
07:47My cousin live on the street, which I bought the house.
07:50And, you know, my mom, my grandma.
07:52It's a street that means a lot because it's so family.
07:56My grandma been there for so long.
07:59When people come down the street, they be like,
08:01man, that's the big house.
08:02That's your grandma's street.
08:03But now they be like, your street?
08:05So, yeah, that's a sweet taste.