Top 50 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

I ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.

You can never overlook a guy.

I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.

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 like fighters who come to fight.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

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

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

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

I’m not in this sport to take punishment.

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 push myself to the limit.

When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

I’m just an American dream.

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

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.

You name him. I beat him.

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’m here to say all lives matter.

The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.

I got a granite chin.

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

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

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

All the money I have, I got it legally.

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.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.

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.

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

A true champion will fight through anything.

Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn’t a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don’t want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That’s not cool.

Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn’t feel was right.

I’m not in this sport to take punishment.

We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories… but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.

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

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.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.

I basically raised myself.

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

I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, ‘I think I should get a job.’ She said, ‘No, just keep boxing.’

I’m not here to judge Mike Tyson. I’m not here to judge nobody. I’m not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.

I’m always focused.

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.

If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that’s around me.

Boxing’s in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I’m blessed with the art of war.

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