Quotes By Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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.

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 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.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

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

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

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

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 love basketball.

I basically raised myself.

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