A biography for Floyd Mayweatherhasn’t been written yet.
“I'm always focused.”
“A true champion can adapt to anything.”
“When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.”
“Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.”
“You name him. I beat him.”
“I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There comes a time when money doesn't matter.”
“I am the best. There is nobody better than me.”
“Nobody is faster than me.”
“There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.”
“I like fighters who come to fight.”
“You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.”
“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.'”