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" I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids. "

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together. "

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" When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison. "

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" 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. "

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" I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me. "

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" When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best. "

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Surround Yourself

" 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. "

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" If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that's around me. "

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" I like fighters who come to fight. "

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" 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. "

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" You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business. "

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" When you talking boxing, you talking me. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better. "

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" Boxing is what pays my bills. "

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" Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president. "

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