Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I like to control my own personal 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.

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

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

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.

I got a granite chin.

Some people are just right for you.

I'm a man of my word.

I always put my boxing first.

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

All the money I have, I got it legally.

You can never overlook a guy.

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 ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

A true champion will fight through anything.

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

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 like fighters who come to fight.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

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

I love basketball.

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