Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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.

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

I always put my boxing first.

You can never overlook a guy.

I'm a man of my word.

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 ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

A true champion will fight through anything.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

I like fighters who come to fight.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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.