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" I'm just an American dream. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
American Dream
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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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" Self-preservation is an important thing to me. "
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" I ain't never nervous. Never nervous. "
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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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" I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people. "
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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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" The American fans would love to see me fight anybody. "
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" Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times. "
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" I am the best. There is nobody better than me. "
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" There comes a time when money doesn't matter. "
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" When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom and sometimes we didn't have electricity. "
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" I got a granite chin. "
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" I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business. "
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" God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record. "
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" I've never had a job. I've never needed to. "
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" You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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