Top 215 Quotes & Sayings by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I always put my boxing first.
I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.
My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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.
Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
Some people are just right for you.
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.
Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.
You can never overlook a guy.
I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
I'm a man of my word.
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.
I basically raised myself.
If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
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.
Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.
God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
A true champion will fight through anything.
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.
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.
I push myself to the limit.
How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I'm thankful for that.
In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
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.
I like fighters who come to fight.
I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
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.
I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
I'll back up anything my dad says.
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.
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.
Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
I'm always focused.
I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.
I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
I'm just an American dream.
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.'
I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
A true champion can adapt to anything.
You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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.
I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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