Top 50 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

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

I’m just an American dream.

I’m always focused.

I like to control my own personal life.

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

Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

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.

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.

When no one knew who Dana White was… Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.

You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody’s going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.

When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I’m just glad that I’m relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.

I got a big mouth.

I’m going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they’ll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, ‘You know what? Those are the things that I want.’

I ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.

For Conor McGregor, I’m coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.

Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it’s not a lie.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

I’ve had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I’m thankful for that.

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’m always going to love my father.

A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, ‘black lives matter,’ or ‘blue lives matter,’ all lives matter. It’s not right what is going on in this world on both sides.

I just want to be the best. I haven’t been in an all-out war. That doesn’t mean I’m not the best.

A true champion can adapt to anything.

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

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

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

Nobody is faster than me.

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

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.

I’m a man of my word.

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 ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.

God only made one thing in this world that’s perfect – and that’s my boxing record.

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.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

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.

You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.

I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

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

I like fighters who come to fight.

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

My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.

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

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

I’m not in this sport to take punishment.