Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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.

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.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

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

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.

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.

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

I basically raised myself.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

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

A true champion can adapt to anything.

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

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 always focused.

I'm a man of my word.

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

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

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.

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.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

Nobody is faster than me.

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

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