Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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

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 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.'

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.

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

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.

Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.

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

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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 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 knew boxing before I knew anything else.

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

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

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

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

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

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

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

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.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

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

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

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.

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

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

I like to control my own personal life.

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

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.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

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

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.

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

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

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

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

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

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

There is no fighter smarter than me.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.

I'm always going to love my father.

My skills are still my skills.

I like fighters who come to fight.

Ricky Hatton ain't nothing but a fat man. I'm going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

Ive never shown my weakness, I will never show my weakness.

Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

I don't have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

The sport needs the cash cow back.

Once I beat a guy, mentally and physically, hes never the same.

I always put my boxing first.

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

Hopefully, some day I help some of this up-and-coming talent and promote them. Boxing is growing and is here to stay.

I don't feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather.

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

If you're the best then take the test!

All work is easy work.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Some people are just right for you.

I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

Of course, we all know what UFC stands for - Undefeated Floyd's Champion

You have to realize that most of these guys get in there and fight on heart. I fight with smarts. There is no fighter that is smarter than me. Most of these fighters are ABC, 1-2-3. I am like 4-5-6 levels above them; that's why I'm able to beat them.

If you the best, take the test!

I don't fight for legacy. I don't fight for none of that, I fight for that check. I'm in the check cashing business.

I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth.

There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.

Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

You can never overlook a guy.

There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure.

When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.

I don't have to run from none of these fighters. If I want to keep my defense tight and break em' down I can.

People always say, "I don't mean to do this . . . ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me

I got a granite chin.

I don't fight for bragging rights. I've proved myself.

A belt don't make me.

I'm a man of my word.

My team calls all the shots out of the ring, I call them in the ring.

You stick to commentating, let me do the fighting.

I basically raised myself.

Pressure... I love it.

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.