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" Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Present
Past
Better
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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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Home
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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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" 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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Said
Prison
" I'm not in this sport to take punishment. "
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Punishment
Take
Sport
" I basically raised myself. "
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Raised
Basically
Myself
" I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young. "
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Top
Looking
Expand
" 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. "
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Me
Loved
Career
" I was able to retire from the sport with all my faculties and not let the sport retire me. "
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Faculties
Me
Able
" I've never had a job. I've never needed to. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Never
Had
Job
" I'm always focused. "
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Focused
Always
" When you talking boxing, you talking me. "
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Talking
Boxing
You
" 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.
Fight
Angry
You
" I like to control my own personal life. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Own
My Own
Life
" All the money I have, I got it legally. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Got
Legally
Money
" Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Boxing
Real
Much
" Well, you've got certain obstacles that get in your way throughout your career, but you have to be a strong individual. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Got
Strong
Career
" 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. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Boss
Fighting
Had
" 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. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Mother
Electricity
Sometimes
" We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
History
Champions
World
" 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. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Talent
Me
God
" I've set the model of showing fighters how they should conduct their business. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Fighters
Business
Model
" For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor. "
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Out
Retirement
Just
" I'll back up anything my dad says. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Back
Back Up
Up
" Self-preservation is an important thing to me. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Thing
Self-Preservation
Me
" 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. "
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People
Cool
Love
" I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Sport
Beat
Guy
" There comes a time when money doesn't matter. "
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
Time
Matter
Money
" 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. "
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Night
Eye
End
" 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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Boxing
Train
Gym