Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes

If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

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• A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

  

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• After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.

  

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• True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the account, before the birth of some of the people in the tale.

  

  Harold Brodkey
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• My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

  

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• 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!

  

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• As a businessperson, I don't have the power to change the government. That is in the hands of the political leaders. However, as a taxpayer, we have the right to be critical of the government and demand change.

  

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• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

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• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

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• Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

  

  Kaspar Hauser
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• I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.

  

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• You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.

  

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• I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

  

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  Anton Chekhov
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• Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic and had to go to special-ed every day and felt stupid about that and got very witty to defend myself.

  

  Dax Shepard
  • Comedy
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• I had extra thick light sabers because mine kept getting bent. I'd be halfway through a fight and it would be like 'Oops, sorry! Mine's bent again!

  

  Ewan McGregor
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• If you fight angry, you make a lot of mistakes, and when you fight a sharp, witty fighter like me, you can't make mistakes.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Fight
  • Angry
  • Mistakes