I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me.
— Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
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.
I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me.
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.
Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.
What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
I'm not here to judge Mike Tyson. I'm not here to judge nobody. I'm not here to monitor no other fighters. I respect him for what he did in the sport of boxing. He was an entertainer.
How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he's never even made $8 or $9 million?
You name him. I beat him.
No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
I got a granite chin.
I'm just an American dream.
I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
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.
Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.
When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny Pacquiao had a boss. I don't have a boss.
When no one knew who Dana White was... Dana White used to run around with me, hang out with me, and I treated him just like anyone else in my camp.
Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-dollar man. I mean, this is the truth; it's not a lie.
When you talking boxing, you talking me.
A lot of times, we get stuck, and we are followers. When you hear one person say, 'black lives matter,' or 'blue lives matter,' all lives matter. It's not right what is going on in this world on both sides.
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.
I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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.
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.
I'm a man of my word.
I'm not here to judge. We don't know what Trump can do.
Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.
God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and a very, very sharp mind. So I'm thankful for that.
God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
I'm here to say all lives matter.
Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves boxing gym. I used to see his Rolls-Royce, his diamond Rolex on, and I said, 'You know what? Those are the things that I want.'
For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
I can get a black eye, a bloody nose. I can have a bad day in the gym. At the end of the day, I don't have a bad payday, and I don't have a bad night under the lights... I get bumps, bruises... but I don't have a bad night.
Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.
Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.
My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
