Top 100 Floyd Mayweather Jr. Quotes
#1. When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that's probably why that's installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can't help it. It's just installed in me.
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#2. I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#7. 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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#9. All 48 of my fights have been hard. None have been easy. All played a major key. It's the 'Mayweather Era.' I feel that every fighter is an artist and they all take pictures their own way. I'm just one of the very best artists.
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#10. 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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#12. I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.
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#15. It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be
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#16. 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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#17. If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don't call my phone unless you've got $100 million.
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#20. Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.
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#21. 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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#25. 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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#26. I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.
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#27. 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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#28. Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.
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#29. I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.
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#33. I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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#34. You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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#36. 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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#37. Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.
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#38. Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to "be smart and not take a lot of punches". It's called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That's what it's about.
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#39. I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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#42. I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood.
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#46. Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.
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#48. 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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#49. I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.
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#51. Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.
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#52. Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.
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#53. Floyd Mayweather is bigger than the sport. That's the thing. Because you can go to somebody who don't even know what boxing is and say, "Floyd Mayweather." They'll go, "Oh, I know Floyd Mayweather. I've heard that name."
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#57. I've been in the sport of boxing for a long time, but I haven't been able to bring my 'A-game' totally out. I've beaten fighters with my 'C-Game' and with my 'D-Game,' but I haven't been able to beat anybody with my 'A-Game.'
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#58. There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.
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#59. When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.
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#61. I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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#62. I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.
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#63. Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.
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#65. I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.
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#68. He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there's no fighter smarter than me.
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#69. A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.
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#70. Canelo's a different breed. A lot of people think because of the way I made Canelo look, they're going to be able to do the same thing, but that's not true. He's a strong fighter.
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#71. When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.
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#74. Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.
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#75. Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.
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#77. 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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#79. I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person ... Only thing I can do is work at it.
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#80. I think my dad, when he works with my older son, puts the same kind ofpressure on him that he put on me - that perfectionist pressure. And that can work in two ways: It can make you a perfectionist yourself, or it can eventually break you in the long run.
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#83. I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
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#84. Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen.
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#85. 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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#89. 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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#90. Cook him up with some barbecued dog ... cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.
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#92. I'm not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.
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#100. I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.
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