Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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Some people are just right for you.
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You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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I always put my boxing first.
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I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
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I love basketball.
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Nobody is faster than me.
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All the money I have, I got it legally.
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How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
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Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
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I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
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The American fans would love to see me fight anybody.
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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.
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When they put me on ESPN and they talk about negative things, or when they put me on TMZ and they talk about negative things, I'm just glad that I'm relevant; to have lasted this long being relevant.
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A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I got a big mouth.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I'm always going to love my father.