Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.:
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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I love basketball.
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, 'I think I should get a job.' She said, 'No, just keep boxing.'
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I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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I'm a man of my word.
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I always put my boxing first.
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I'm not in this sport to take punishment.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I got a big mouth.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I'll back up anything my dad says.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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I got a granite chin.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
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Some people are just right for you.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
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When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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I knew boxing before I knew anything else.
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I don't have to fight if I don't want to.
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You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it - it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.
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My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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I push myself to the limit.
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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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I basically raised myself.
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Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
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My skills are still my skills.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
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All the money I have, I got it legally.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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I'm always focused.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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