Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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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I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.

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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.

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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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I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - all of the tough times - and I'm still at the top of my game.

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If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.

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Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.

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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

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Quotes by Floyd Mayweather, Jr.