Top 100 Floyd Mayweather Jr Quotes
#2. 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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#3. I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#8. 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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#10. Even though I had a rough life I always had my mind on bigger and better things.
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#12. As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you're considered a winner in my book.
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#13. 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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#14. I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth.
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#15. 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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#17. 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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#18. You have to realize that most of these guys get in there and fight on heart. I fight with smarts. There is no fighter that is smarter than me. Most of these fighters are ABC, 1-2-3. I am like 4-5-6 levels above them; that's why I'm able to beat them.
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#19. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. Just live every day like it's your last day and be the best person that you can be.
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#27. I don't know who my three next opponents will be. A lot of people ask me that. You want to fight me? Earn it.
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#29. 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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#30. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.
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#39. 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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#40. 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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#43. 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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#47. 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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#48. I say to Floyd Mayweather Jr., don't be a coward and face me in the ring, mano a mano, and shut your big, pretty mouth so we can show the world who is the true king of the ring,
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.
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#56. I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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#57. You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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#58. 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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#60. I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.
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#61. 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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#62. Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#66. 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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#67. I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
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#71. Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why ... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.
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#72. I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood.
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#74. To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.
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#79. I fight myself. I don't fight to break Ali's record or Sugar Ray Robinson's record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I'm rated. I didn't fight in Ali's era. This is my era.
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#82. 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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#86. 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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#87. I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.
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#88. I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.
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#90. 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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#91. Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.
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#92. 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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#94. Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.
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#95. I don't talk about my personal life - or what I do with no females. Just know that I love women. A lot.
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#99. I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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#100. 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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