Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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.'

I'm always going to love my father.

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.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

I push myself to the limit.

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

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

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

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

I got a big mouth.

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

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

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

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.

I'm a man of my word.

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.