Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
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  • May

• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • Memory
  • Admire

• Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Great
  • Learn
  • Listen

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!

  

  Gail Simmons
  • World
  • Best
  • Beauty

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Job
  • Together
  • Mom

• The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Free
  • Question
  • Ideas

• Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Respect
  • Kind
  • Lie

• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Great
  • Attention
  • Health

• It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
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  • Pilot

• Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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  • Dad
  • Like

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Mind
  • Fight
  • Everything

• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Him

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• I think, even when I was little, there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist. My first exploration through art was really through music - I've trained classically with piano for about ten years.

  

  Condola Rashad
  • Music
  • Art

• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Study
  • Military
  • Biology

• I wish to God that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it to you.

  

  Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
  • God
  • Giving
  • Wish

• Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.

  

  George Sampson
  • Talent
  • Achieve
  • Selfish

• The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Opinion
  • Regard

• My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Dad
  • Chance