Top 140 Floyd Mayweather, Jr. Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “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.’”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

52. “I basically raised myself.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

53. “Of course, we all know what UFC stands for – Undefeated Floyd’s Champion.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

54. “Once I beat a guy, mentally and physically, hes never the same.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

55. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

56. “Boxing has always been work to me, a job. If I could say anything to a youngster taking up boxing it would be to “be smart and not take a lot of punches”. It’s called the sweet science for a reason. Hit and not be hit, make a lot of money without taking a lot of punishment. That’s what it’s about.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

57. “I’m a firm believer that before you can go anywhere, you have to conquer the level that you are at, just like young kids do it today with video games, they have to finish one level to go to the next one. Conquer one level at the time, and only then you’ll get where you want to go to.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

58. “Me and my team always work so hard outside that square circle.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

60. “You can never overlook a guy.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

61. “There are all these athletes out there cheating. I am clean and pure.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

63. “Canelo’s a different breed. A lot of people think because of the way I made Canelo look, they’re going to be able to do the same thing, but that’s not true. He’s a strong fighter.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

64. “It’s the hurt business, it’s boxing. We’re there to get it in.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

65. “I fight myself. I don’t fight to break Ali’s record or Sugar Ray Robinson’s record. I fight to please myself. I know in my heart where I’m rated. I didn’t fight in Ali’s era. This is my era.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

66. “I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

67. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

68. “I don’t fight for bragging rights. I’ve proved myself.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

69. “I’m fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

70. “I like to control my own personal life.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

71. “I just got the will to win at life.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

72. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

73. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

74. “Even though I had a rough life I always had my mind on bigger and better things.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

76. “You have to realize that most of these guys get in there and fight on heart. I fight with smarts. There is no fighter that is smarter than me. Most of these fighters are ABC, 1-2-3. I am like 4-5-6 levels above them; that’s why I’m able to beat them.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

77. “To be honest with you, I normally beat guys with my C game and I don’t have to pull my A or B game out.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

78. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

80. “Boxing is what pays my bills.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

81. “I like fighters who come to fight.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

82. “Once again we’re talking to Brian Kenny, a man of many traits, a master of nothing.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

83. “I walk around at 150-152 pounds to weigh 147 pounds. Other boxers weigh around 160-170 before coming down.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

84. “Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

85. “When God wants me to lose, then that’s when I’ll lose. But until then, I’m going to be at the top of my game and keep working hard anddedicating myself to the sport of boxing and to being the best entertainer that I can be.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

86. “I’m the best at talking trash I’m also the best at going out there and backing it up.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

87. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

88. “I’ve been in the sport of boxing for a long time, but I haven’t been able to bring my ‘A-game’ totally out. I’ve beaten fighters with my ‘C-Game’ and with my ‘D-Game,’ but I haven’t been able to beat anybody with my ‘A-Game.’”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

89. “I haven’t took no punishment. There’s nothing cool about taking punishment.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

90. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

91. “A lot of the time when I go to church, people want to take pictures. They want you to sign autographs. So I don’t go all the time. I go once in a blue moon. Every once in a blue moon.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

92. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

93. “When I was younger, my dad did want me to be perfect, so that’s probably why that’s installed in me to this day. I want to be perfect at whatever I do. I can’t help it. It’s just installed in me.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

95. “No athlete works harder than Floyd Mayweather.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

96. “If I did want to come back, I was going to make, what, $50 million? You know what; don’t call my phone unless you’ve got $100 million.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

97. “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.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

98. “I’m always going to love my father.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

99. “Boxing won’t retire me, I will retire from boxing.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

100. “Ricky Hatton ain’t nothing but a fat man. I’m going to punch him in his beer belly when I see him.”

— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.