Floyd Mayweather Jr Quotes

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fight, Villain, Harder

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Sports

  Tags in People, Eventually

• 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 Jr

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Myself, Mind, Adult

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Certain, Things, Never

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Around, Yourself, Protect

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

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  Tags in Good, Bad, Mentally

• You can never overlook a guy.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Guy

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Negative, Things, Relevant

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Anything, Idea

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Prison, Olympics

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Sometimes, Deep, Electricity

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bring, Everything

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Crazy, Care, Matter, Really

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Individual, Certain, Career

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Sport, Hurt

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Matter

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

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Fans

• Some people are just right for you.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Right

• Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Thing

• 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.

  Floyd Mayweather Jr

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Things, Criticized

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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