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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.Maidana is a young, strong and tough competitor. He's a guy that I can't overlook. You can never take any fighter for granted because anything can happen.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.I always say that I'm a clean athlete and that I should be randomly tested anytime, urine and blood.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.I don't fold under pressure, great athletes perform better under pressure, so put pressure on me.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.I don't know who my three next opponents will be. A lot of people ask me that. You want to fight me? Earn it.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.Nobody knows what the future holds, but right now, I'm cool and comfortable and having no second thoughts at all about retirement. I had a good career, I won every world title, but boxing is wear and tear on the body. It's time to hang 'em up. I'm looking forward to working with some up-and-coming kids, going on walks, and taking vacations.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.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.I don't feel that no fighter has the mental or physical agility to match Floyd Mayweather.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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, Jr.I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.I don't talk about my personal life - or what I do with no females. Just know that I love women. A lot.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.People always say, "I don't mean to do this . . . ," and then they do it! If you don't mean to touch on something, then don't touch on it. That's how I feel.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.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.I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.Anything I've asked of MGM Grand, they've done for me in a heartbeat. They're all about making entertainers and athletes happy.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr....cook him up with some barbecued dog...cook that yellow chump. I'll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.Sometimes, people say certain things about me that are negative, but that's no problem. I try to take their negative and turn it to a positive. That's why I like to surround myself with positive people.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.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.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.
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