Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes
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Boxing is what pays my bills.
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God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
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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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You could take me anywhere. You could take me to the moon, and believe me, everybody's going to try to take a trip to the moon to watch me fight.
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I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.
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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity.
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I'm just an American dream.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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I like to control my own personal life.
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I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.
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You can never overlook a guy.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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Ali was a threat because he was a voice, and the people hated Ali when he was a voice, but once Ali could no longer speak and he wasn't a voice, they loved him. Love me now. I don't want to be loved if I could barely walk or barely talk. That's not cool.
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A true champion will fight through anything.
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When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
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I'm a man of my word.
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You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.
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I basically raised myself.
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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.