Floyd Mayweather, Jr. quote: "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."

A true champion can adapt to anything.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I lo...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Every home that I have is paid for, every car that I have is paid for, and I am a hundred-million-do...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coa...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

God has blessed me with an unbelievable talent, with fast feet, fast hands, unbelievable defense and...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I'm a boxer who believes that the object of the sport is to hit and not get hit.
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 an...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

You have to protect yourself at all times. What goes around comes around.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

When I step in the ring, I bring everything I have.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

If you were my friend, I love you unconditionally. I like you the same way I like everyone else that...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I'm looking to expand my portfolio while I'm on top and while I'm young.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

A true champion will fight through anything.
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 ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don&...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I'm always going to love my father.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I got a granite chin.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good box...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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&...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Bernard Hopkins? He fights scary dirty. I mean, he did what he had to do in his career.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

When I was about 8 or 9, I lived in New Jersey with my mother and we were seven deep in one bedroom ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I got a big mouth.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggi...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

When they said, 'Why is Floyd Mayweather not fighting Manny Pacquiao?' it was because Manny ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.
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.

Mike Tyson was one of the fighters who motivated me. How? We both used to train at the Golden Gloves...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hur...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-so...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, an...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ri...
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 i...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right ti...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that&...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going t...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I ain't never nervous. Never nervous.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

My skills are still my skills.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight st...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were ...
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR.

I'm a coward? I'm a coward!? Come say that to my face.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER SR

He's a big clown, so it makes sense he has trainers who are just a joke.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER SR

Jeff is a good trainer and he'll handle him the right way.
FLOYD MAYWEATHER SR

He admits to his wrongheaded and inappropriate use of the Internet, but he does not accept responsib...
FLOYD JOURDAIN JR

My son is a good kid.
FLOYD JOURDAIN JR

They deserve full honors, and we intend to honor them with every resource we have.
FLOYD JOURDAIN JR

Everybody had their fans and they were fans of all of them.
EDDIE FLOYD

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.
EDDIE FLOYD

Oh yeah, I know Johnnie Bassett. We were part of that whole thing.
EDDIE FLOYD

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.
EDDIE FLOYD

I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.
EDDIE FLOYD

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
EDDIE FLOYD

I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
EDDIE FLOYD

For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. ...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Irish novelist John Banville has a creepy, introverted imagination.
FLOYD SKLOOT

Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep beca...
FLOYD SKLOOT

In the spring of 1993, I married Beverly and moved to the woods. This is something I could never hav...
FLOYD SKLOOT

A new laboratory technique, positron emission tomography, uses radioactively labeled oxygen or gluco...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Neurologists have a host of clinical tests that let them observe what a brain-damaged patient can an...
FLOYD SKLOOT

A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me disc...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our se...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I feel that I'm a poet first. Not only was poetry the first genre in which I wrote, it's the...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel wit...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I became demented overnight. Sudden onset is one factor that distinguishes my form of dementia from ...
FLOYD SKLOOT

If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, stic...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large she...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life dr...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Sa...
FLOYD SKLOOT

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgett...
FLOYD SKLOOT

My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found tha...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a mome...
FLOYD SKLOOT

At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow s...
FLOYD SKLOOT

When memories fade, can one ever really return home?
FLOYD SKLOOT

For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
FLOYD PATTERSON

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
FLOYD PATTERSON

Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
FLOYD PATTERSON

The fighter loses more than his pride in the fight; he loses part of his future. He's a step clo...
FLOYD PATTERSON

CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a ca...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best wa...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have e...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.
FLOYD ABRAMS

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be ve...
FLOYD ABRAMS

The government would be able to go to court with respect to newspaper articles, broadcast pieces and...
FLOYD ABRAMS

CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer abo...
FLOYD ABRAMS

No other country in the world gives protection like that, but it is not absolute protection. People ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometim...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawye...
FLOYD ABRAMS

My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this an...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I know a lot of reporters certainly will go to jail to defend confidential sources. Some have even g...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn'...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The N...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Were this not Texas, were there not a state where there were no protections at all and where the law...
FLOYD ABRAMS

So sometimes the facts are good and sometimes the facts are bad, the important thing from the point ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think o...
FLOYD ABRAMS

When I've seen my operas in Europe, they have always struck me as more American than when I hear...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't kno...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate th...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also devel...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
CARLISLE FLOYD

If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I think anything that is expressed directly and as honestly as possible will last.
CARLISLE FLOYD

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was aca...
CARLISLE FLOYD

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable positio...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the y...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomf...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value it...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it conta...
CARLISLE FLOYD

If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say ...
CARLISLE FLOYD

It seems to me opera is just as relevant as an expressive art as anything else.
CARLISLE FLOYD

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out...
CARLISLE FLOYD

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but p...
CARLISLE FLOYD

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very brig...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I find it enormously valuable to be sure that that the pacing is what I think it is and that the sce...
CARLISLE FLOYD

People in very high places suddenly fall, and we are always surprised because we don't factor in...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Our most intimate contact with civilizations long since dust has been through the art which has surv...
CARLISLE FLOYD

If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
RAY FLOYD

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking f...
KEITH FLOYD

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD

Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall.
PINK FLOYD

If you should go skating On the thin ice of modern life Dragging behind you the silent reproach Of a...
PINK FLOYD

If you wanna find out what's behind these cold eyes You'll just have to claw your way through this d...
PINK FLOYD

I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to.
PINK FLOYD

How I wish, how I wish you were here. We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after ...
PINK FLOYD

There is no pain you are receding A distant ship, smoke on the horizon. You are only coming through ...
PINK FLOYD

There's someone in my head but it's not me.
PINK FLOYD

And I can feel one of my turns coming on. I feel cold as a razor blade, Tight as a tourniquet, Dry a...
PINK FLOYD

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
DOUG FLOYD

Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
FLOYD DELL

When Beverly and I got together in 1992, and I moved to be with her in the little round house she...
FLOYD SKLOOT

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have...
FLOYD ABRAMS

It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom we agree. For th...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Golf is a game, and games are meant to be enjoyed.
RAYMOND FLOYD

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness...
FLOYD SKLOOT

The girls are very excited and pumped up. They are a little nervous, but I think they are ready for ...
ANGELL FLOYD

I was trying to slow the ball down and they were trying to push the ball. That is the difference in ...
ANGELL FLOYD

Our defense picked up in the third quarter. Our defense was horrible in the second quarter. We were ...
ANGELL FLOYD

It was ugly but it was a win and we'll take it.
ANGELL FLOYD

It was good to see the girls can overcome obstacles and even pick up their game even more. They step...
ANGELL FLOYD

When her shot is on, give it to her.
ANGELL FLOYD

If we can hang with them, then we can hang with most anybody else in the state. It is good to see th...
ANGELL FLOYD

Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the cent...
FLOYD SKLOOT

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unle...
CARLISLE FLOYD

Persons desiring to know what love is might benefit more if they were able to understand what love i...
FLOYD HENDERSON

What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of nat...
CARLISLE FLOYD

[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[Appearing on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. Fitzgera...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[Appearing Sunday on CNN's] Reliable Sources, ... I tried to get a deal a year ago. I spoke to Mr. F...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Mil...
FLOYD ABRAMS

Today's result is overdue. Mayor Giuliani should have never started this destructive fight with the ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, se...
FLOYD ABRAMS

will significantly lessen the risk of large media companies finding themselves in the situation that...
FLOYD ABRAMS

a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.
FLOYD ABRAMS

coerced and had been required as a condition for Libby's continued employment at the White House.
FLOYD ABRAMS

Judy's view is that any purported waiver she got from anyone was not on the face of it sufficiently ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

I was choosing a subject matter that tries to depict the period more accurately, rather than the his...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I tried to use the voice so it was not strictly recitative or singing or spoken word. I tried a grea...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I had all the normal interests-I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also develop...
CARLISLE FLOYD

I don't know how any of my operas will play in 20 years. It will have a lot to do with the fashions ...
CARLISLE FLOYD

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vi...
CARLISLE FLOYD

There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,...
FLOYD DELL

If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
RAY FLOYD

I told him that if he ran (for governor) his bipartisan honeymoon as mayor would come to an end and ...
FLOYD CIRULI

A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

[In an interview yesterday, Abrams declined to endorse Miller's account that Libby did not want her ...
FLOYD ABRAMS

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.
RAY FLOYD

When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpseOut of the corner of my eye.I turned to look but it wa...
PINK FLOYD

How I wish, how I wish you were here...We're just two lost soulsswimming in a fish bowl,Year after y...
PINK FLOYD

If you have anything on the throw and it's accurate, you've got a chance,
CLIFF FLOYD

A roller coaster. We went from thinking we were in it to being out of it like that. It was shocking.
CLIFF FLOYD

I don't recall seeing anything quite like this.
TIM FLOYD

We want to try to hit a happy medium so everybody's happy. We won't want a bunch of money. The goal ...
ALLEN FLOYD

That's a market we've been working on for years. It's good news, real good news. It'll give the chip...
ALLEN FLOYD

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.

Copied!

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Share:

Related

More Floyd Mayweather, Jr.