Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

Pressure ... I love it.

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

I've truly been blessed. I've taken my time, kept my eye on the prize and done what I've had to do. So I'm able to make a choice when to retire. Most fighters really couldn't.

I always put my boxing first.

If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Fame is cool but I believe in success.

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

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.

If you the best, take the test!

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

Cotto is a talented fighter but I'm God gifted.

I want to beat the best out there and whoever is considered the top fighters of my era.

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

Showing is better than telling.

To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don't have to pull my A or B game out.

It's the hurt business, it's boxing. We're there to get it in.

You stick to commentating, let me do the fighting.

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

Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

I like to control my own personal life.

Nobody is faster than me.

I don't feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather.

If you're the best then take the test!

My spirituality is more private. I've got my own personal relationship with god. I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game. With all the rumors and all the hate, I'm still strong, still happy, still blessed.

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

I'm not scared of any opponent. I fight who I want to fight.

But it's me taking a stand for something that means something. And it's for the fighters who are up and coming. It's sort of the same stance Martin Luther King and Malcolm X made, so we could have freedoms, so everybody could tell the world that we're equal. The only thing I'm saying is that we are equal. So if you're not on nothing and I'm not on nothing, then let's go take the test. That's all I'm saying.

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

Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.

To be the best you have to work overtime.

Canelo's a different breed. A lot of people think because of the way I made Canelo look, they're going to be able to do the same thing, but that's not true. He's a strong fighter.

Bob arum is Manny Pacquiao's boss, Floyd Mayweather is his own boss.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

It's about being smart, taking your time, keeping your composure, just going out there and being the best that you can be

Everybody is blessed with a certain talent, you have to know what your talent is maximize it and push it to the limit.

I'm not in this sport to see how hard I can get hit or to see how many big punches I can take. I am in this game to fight as long as I can. I am trying to dish a lot of punishment.

When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.

I'm running my mouth a lot and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don't shut me up, I'm going to keep running my mouth.

All 48 of my fights have been hard. None have been easy. All played a major key. It's the 'Mayweather Era.' I feel that every fighter is an artist and they all take pictures their own way. I'm just one of the very best artists.

I'm a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you'll get where you want to go to.

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.

Once again we're talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.

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.

I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.

I've been in the sport of boxing for a long time, but I haven't been able to bring my 'A-game' totally out. I've beaten fighters with my 'C-Game' and with my 'D-Game,' but I haven't been able to beat anybody with my 'A-Game.'

I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.

There's no blueprint on how to beat me.

I don't have to wait for nobody, I move when I wanna move.

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

I'll back up anything my dad says.

Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why ... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

The ultimate goal is to always break records.

Any true champion can bounce back. That's what being a champion is: being able to deal with adversity and being able to bounce back.

Some pay to see me win, some pay to see me lose, but they all pay.

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.'

There is boxing and then there is me. The rest are just falling in line behind me or are trying to get in line to fight me. And that includes Manny Pacquiao too.

My team calls all the shots out of the ring, I call them in the ring.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.

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

Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

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

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.

A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don't go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.

As long as you know you gave whatever you did 100% you're considered a winner in my book.

Come December 8th his ass gone be hurt. He aint fought 43 Floyd Mayweathers.

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.

Some people are just right for you.

Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen.

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.

You have to realize that most of these guys get in there and fight on heart. I fight with smarts. There is no fighter that is smarter than me. Most of these fighters are ABC, 1-2-3. I am like 4-5-6 levels above them; that's why I'm able to beat them.

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

People always say, "I don't mean to do this ... ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.

I don't talk about my personal life - or what I do with no females. Just know that I love women. A lot.

A belt don't make me.

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.

When God wants me to lose, then that's when I'll lose. But until then, I'm going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.

I'm always going to love my father.

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.

I like fighters who come to fight.

I've done some things that I shouldn't have done but I know I'm not a bad person, and I know that I can become a better person ... Only thing I can do is work at it.

Your body is your temple. You do your body good, your body will do you good.

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

I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.

Boxing is what pays my bills.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.