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.

I like to control my own personal life.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

You know, as a young child, I lay in my bedroom and I swore to myself then: 'I'm not going to smoke and I'm not going to drink.' And I said I'm not going to just say that when I'm a kid. I'm going to stick to that as an adult. I kept that in mind my whole life.

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

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.

I'll back up anything my dad says.

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.

Everything people say I couldn't do I've done.

All the money I have, I got it legally.

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.'

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.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

Nobody is faster than me.

When you talking boxing, you talking me.

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.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

I basically raised myself.

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

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.

I knew boxing before I knew anything else.

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.

You name him. I beat him.

I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

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.'

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

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.

Even though I made $800 million, I am still grounded.

I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.

My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.

Mayweather Promotions - we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather's pay is better.

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

Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

Self-preservation is an important thing to me.

Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.

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.

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.

I'm not here to judge. We don't know what Trump can do.

I'm just an American dream.

I'm always going to love my father.

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.

Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

I got a granite chin.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.