Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
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More than anything, I think as our country matures, we recognize that women deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.
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I had the idea to do an anthology about instrument-making.
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I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
