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1. There’s ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
2. You can never overlook a guy.
3. Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
4. I turned pro as a 20-year-old, won a world title a year later, and remained a world champion ever since.
5. 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.
6. My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.
7. How can a guy talk about $20 or $30 million if he’s never even made $8 or $9 million?
8. I like to control my own personal life.
9. 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.
10. Nobody is faster than me.
11. 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.’
12. I push myself to the limit.
13. I basically raised myself.
14. My skills are still my skills.
15. I’m not here to judge. We don’t know what Trump can do.
16. 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.
17. 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.
18. 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 №1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
19. I’ve never had a job. I’ve never needed to.
20. 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.