Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

A true champion will fight through anything.

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 like fighters who come to fight.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I'll back up anything my dad says.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm always focused.

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.

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.