Floyd Mayweather, Jr. is a former professional boxer and professional boxing promoter. From 1996 to 2015, he was associated with this career, and he made a one-fight comeback in 2017. In his whole career, he won fifteen major world titles, including the lineal championship in four weight classes and The Ring in five weight classes, and he retired unbeaten.
In addition, he earned a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1996 Olympics, three US Golden Gloves championships, and the US featherweight national championship. BWAA also dubbed him “The Fighter of the Decade” for the decade of the 2010s. Floyd has won the Ring magazine Fighter of the Year award three times, as well as the BWAA Fighter of the Year Award three times and the Best Fighter ESPY Award six times. Mayweather was recently named second on Ranker’s ranking of the top boxers of the twenty-first century in 2020.
Read a few Floyd Mayweather, Jr. quotes below and apply them to your daily life. It will radically alter your life.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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 even 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.
- “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.”― FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
- “I’m just an American dream.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “A true champion will fight through anything.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “God only made one thing in this world that’s perfect – and that’s my boxing record.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I’m always going to love my father.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I’VE HAD BOXING GLOVES ON SINCE BEFORE I COULD WALK AND BEEN IN GYMS ALL OF MY LIFE.”― FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I am the best. There is nobody better than me.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I’m looking to expand my portfolio while I’m on top and while I’m young.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “IF YOU WERE MY FRIEND, I LOVE YOU UNCONDITIONALLY. I LIKE YOU THE SAME WAY I LIKE EVERYONE ELSE THAT’S AROUND ME.”― FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
- “You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “There comes a time when money doesn’t matter.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “A true champion can adapt to anything.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “Racism still exists in the sport of boxing.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “SELF-PRESERVATION IS AN IMPORTANT THING TO ME.”― FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “Everything people say I couldn’t do I’ve done.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I got a granite chin.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr
- “Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.”― 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.
- “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.
- “When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I ALWAYS PUT MY BOXING FIRST.”― FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
- “My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.
- “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.
- “You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren’t true, but you never hear about the positive.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I’m here to say all lives matter.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “I WAS ABLE TO RETIRE FROM THE SPORT WITH ALL MY FACULTIES AND NOT LET THE SPORT RETIRE ME.”― 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.
- “I push myself to the limit.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
- “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.”― Floyd Mayweather, Jr.