Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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.

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

My skills are still my skills.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

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

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.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

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.

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

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

I'm always going to love my father.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

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 push myself to the limit.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

I'll back up anything my dad says.

I like to control my own personal life.

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