Floyd Mayweather Jr Quotes

• The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.

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• Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

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• Some people are just right for you.

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

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• There comes a time when money doesn’t matter.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• You can never overlook a guy.

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

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

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• 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.

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

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• You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that’s what you’ll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

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• 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.

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• I got a granite chin.

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Floyd Mayweather Jr (74)

Birth:	24th February, 1977
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Boxer

About

Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is an American professional boxer. He is currently undefeated as a professional and is a five-division world champion, having won ten world titles and the lineal championship in four different weight classes. Mayweather is a two-time Ring magazine Fighter of the Year.

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