Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

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

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

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 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.

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

When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

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

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.

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’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.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

Nobody is faster than me.

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

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

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

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

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

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.

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

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

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

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

I push myself to the limit.

God only made one thing in this world that’s perfect – and that’s my boxing record.

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.

You name him. I beat him.

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

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.

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.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

I like fighters who come to fight.

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.

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

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

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.

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

I’ll back up anything my dad says.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.

I am the best. There is nobody better than me.

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.

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.