Floyd Mayweather, Jr.'s Quotes

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'll back up anything my dad says.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

I'm a man of my word.

I'm always focused.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

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

Nobody is faster than me.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

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

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'm always going to love my father.

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.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.

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.'

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.

A true champion will fight through anything.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

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.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

I push myself to the limit.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

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.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

I always put my boxing first.

I got a big mouth.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I like to control my own personal life.

I love basketball.

I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

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