Top 215 Quotes & Sayings by Floyd Mayweather, Jr. - Page 2

All the money I have, I got it legally.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

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.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

My skills are still my skills.

Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

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.

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.

My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

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.

I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

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.

I'm not here to judge. We don't know what Trump can do.

Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

When you talking boxing, you talking me.

Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.

I'm here to say all lives matter.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

I got a big mouth.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

Nobody is faster than me.

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.

I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.

I got a granite chin.

Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.

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.

I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

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.

I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.

I like to control my own personal life.

We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.

You name him. I beat him.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

I'm always going to love my father.

When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

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.

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

I don't have to fight if I don't want to.

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.