Floyd Mayweather Quotes

Dream Chasing

“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.”

“I’ve had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.”

“I think my grandmother saw my potential first. When I was young, I told her, ‘I think I should get a job.’ She said, ‘No, just keep boxing'”

“I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: ‘I want to be the richest man in the world.’ I’ve come a long way from there.”

“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 keep that in mind my whole life.”

“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.”

Floyd Mayweather was ambitious from a young age

Being The Best

“I am the best. There is nobody better than me.”

“They think they’re good, I know I’m great”

“I want to be able to separate the average from the good and from the great. I want to separate the ordinary from the extraordinary.”

Champion’s Mindset

“A true champ can adapt to anything”

“I don’t fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure so put pressure on me.”

“Well, you’ve got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual.”

“I push myself to the limit; I always put my boxing first.”

“You can never overlook a guy”

“Fame is cool but I believe in success.”

“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.”

“I’m not in this sport to say another guy can beat me”.

” To be the best you’ve got to work overtime.”

“Once I am in the squared circle, I am in my home”

“I’m a one man army, the world could go against me and I will still come out on top, I got God on my side.”

“What advice do I have for young and up and coming fighters or young up and coming athletes? Have tunnel vision. Stop reading your press articles; when they get to saying, ‘You’re the next Dr. J.’, or ‘You’re the next Michael Jordan, or ‘You’re the next’ this guy or that guy. Focus on staying in your lane and being the first of whoever you are.”

Dealing With Life

“Tough times don’t last, tough people do”

“If anyone has followed my career, they know that there’s been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.”

“I come from a very rough background, and I’m saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.”

“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”

“Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.”

“You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.”

“I would rather work and have money and no social life than be broke and hang with the same people that was doing the same thing last year.”

“There comes a time where money doesn’t matter.”

“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.”

“Hard work and dedication.”

“If you work good, you’re gonna get paid very well for it. Simple as that. That’s how life goes. If you work hard, you’re gonna get good results. If you bullshit, you’re gonna be at the bottom with a bunch of people that’s at the bottom.”

“Your body is your temple, you do your body good it does you good.”

“Everybody is blessed with a certain talent. You have to know what that talent is.. you have you maximize it and push it to the limit.”

“I’m always focused.”

Floyd was known for his commitment to training

Belief

“I believe in my skills. I believe in my talent. If no one believes in Floyd Mayweather, I believe in me.”

“All work is easy work.”

“I ain’t never nervous. Never nervous.”

“You know me. I’m running my mouth a lot, and I’m looking for a guy to shut me up. If you don’t shut me up, I’m going to keep running my mouth. Nobody can beat me. There is no way to beat me.”

Boxing Politics

“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.”

“It’s about having personality…It’s not about being the bad guy, it’s about entertaining people.”

“I’m looking to expand my portfolio while I’m on top while I’m young.”

The Sweet Science

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

“There’s no blueprint on how to beat me.”

“He can have heart, he can hit harder and he can be stronger, but there’s no fighter mentally smarter than me.”

“If you fight angry, you make mistakes, and when you fight a sharp witty fighter like me, you can’t make mistakes.”

“I don’t adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don’t watch films on my opponents.”

Mayweather valued mind over matter

On Criticism

“You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.”

“For those who pay to see me lose…keep paying. To those who pay to see me win…keep paying.”

“Everything people say I couldn’t do, I’ve done.”

“Promote what you love instead of bashing what you hate.”

“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.”

“What’s so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don’t really care too much for you, basically what they’re going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They’re going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.”

“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.”

There were tensions between Mayweather and the media at times

Lasting Legacy

“I want to be the best, not just the best fighter, I want to be the best athlete, period. When I leave, I will be known as TBE, and that’s The Best Ever.”

“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.”

“I loved competing and winning. I also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.”

“The Money Team has nothing to do with money. It’s the way you live, it’s the way you feel. Even if you’re a thousandaire and you feel like a millionaire, you with the Money Team. If you’re a millionaire that feel like a billionaire, you with the Money Team. If you don’t have no money at all but you rich in your heart, you’re with the Money Team.”

The king of TMT will be remembered as TBE