Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

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.

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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I look back on some of my outfits, and I'm like: 'Why did I wear that? Where are my friends and why didn't they tell me not to leave the house?' If they had, I probably would've said, 'You don't know what you're talking about. This looks amazing.'

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Friends
  • House
  • Me

• I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.

  

  D'Angelo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Me

• For me, opposition is just another opposition.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Me
  • Just
  • Another

• As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.

  

  Usher
  • People
  • Me
  • Looking

• If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Time
  • Career
  • Change

• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Me
  • Personality
  • Difference

• I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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  • Myself
  • Story

• I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Me

• Australian genre films were a lot of fun because they were legitimate genre movies. They were real genre films, and they dealt, in a way like the Italians did, with the excess of genre, and that has been an influence on me.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Way
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  • Films

• What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Pretty

• Europe, the U.S., and their allies can defeat the terrorists of Islamic State, or ISIS. The first step is making the decision to fight back. The next step is understanding that drones and standoff missiles will not be enough. Ground troops will be needed.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Understanding
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• I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.

  

  Kajol
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Visit

• Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Important
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• We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

  

  Yannis Stournaras
  • Country
  • Heart
  • Change

• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Me
  • Famous
  • Seems

• I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Me

• He's definitely the best player in the NBA - to me. I don't know if winning the (MVP) award is important to him or not. But he has three (championship) rings and that's what it's all about.

  

  Kobe Bryant
  • Important
  • Player
  • Winning

• A lot of people would be happy that they got through a long career and had a chance to play as many times in the finals. To me, I wanted to win for the franchise and for the people. And when you can't do that, it's devastating, particularly for someone like me.

  

  Jerry West
  • People
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• Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

  

  Jean de la Bruyere

• 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.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
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  • Winning