Floyd Mayweather, Jr. [1977-0] American    
Rank: 101
Athlete
Sports, Work, Best, Cool, Dad, Father's Day, Future, Home, Positive, Respect
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| 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.' | | 101| I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit. | Sports | 102| I am the best. There is nobody better than me. | Best | 103| 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. | Work | 104| 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. | | 105| 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. | Work | 106| 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. | | 107| When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. | | 108| A true champion will fight through anything. | | 109| If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight? | | 110| Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home. | Home | 111| Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual. | | 112| You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally. | | 113| I ain't never nervous. Never nervous. | | 114| My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover. | | 115| Everything people say I couldn't do I've done. | | 116| 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. | Respect | 117| 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. | | 118| 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. | | 119| 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. | | 120| You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive. | Positive | 121| 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. | | 122| Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder. | | 123| I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young. | | 124| I'm always going to love my father. | Father's Day | 125| A true champion can adapt to anything. | | 126| 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. | | 201| 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. | Future | 202| 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. | | 203| I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me. | Sports | 204| I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. | | 205| You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around. | | 206| I knew boxing before I knew anything else. | | 207| I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life. | | 208| I'm a man of my word. | | 209| I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business. | | 210| Some people are just right for you. | | 211| Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances. | Sports | 212| I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment. | Cool | 213| There comes a time when money doesn't matter. | | 214| There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy. | Sports | 215| I'm not in this sport to take punishment. | Sports | 216| I got a big mouth. | | 217| Self-preservation is an important thing to me. | | 218| I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents. | | 219| All the money I have, I got it legally. | | 220| I'm always focused. | | 221| You can never overlook a guy. | | 222| 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. | | 223| I basically raised myself. | | 224| I'll back up anything my dad says. | Dad | 225| I like to control my own personal life. | | 226| I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect. | | 301| In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times. | | 302| I think I already proved that I wasn't just fighting for the money, because I fought as an amateur. I fought 90 fights for free. | | 303| 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. | | 304| Nobody is faster than me. | | 305| When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have. | | 306| I always put my boxing first. | | 307| I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids. | | 308| I love basketball. | | 309| 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. | | 310| The American fans would love to see me fight anybody. | | 311| 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. | | 312| I like fighters who come to fight. | | 313| I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight. | | 314| Boxing is what pays my bills. | | 315| I push myself to the limit. | | 316| My skills are still my skills. | | 317| I don't have to fight if I don't want to. | | 318| I got a granite chin. | | 319| My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together. | | 320| I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing. | | 321| I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past. | | 322 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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