Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Some people are just right for you.

I always put my boxing first.

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

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.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

You can never overlook a guy.

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.

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

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

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I love basketball.

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

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 basically raised myself.

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

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

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.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

I'll back up anything my dad says.