Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

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.'

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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• I've certainly not got any famous people's numbers on my phone. It's just not my thing, really.

  

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• If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

  

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• The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.

  

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• 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.'

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Grandmother
  • Boxing