Larry Holmes Quotes

I once had money to burn. I'd fly to Barbados for the weekend. I lived in a twenty-two-room mansion and had my pick of four luxury cars.

I don't put cash in my Louis Vuitton wallet. I have it thrown around my bag - jut a whole bunch of hundreds, maybe $5,000.

I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

Multiple Bentleys isn't making anyone 'financially set.'

You cannot make money with a hockey team. You cannot make money with a hotel, either, and you cannot make money with a golf club. I have all three of them. When you have a certain amount of money, you do silly things - because it's pretty to have a golf course and it's interesting to have a hockey team.

What's problematic about playing stadiums and driving around in private jets and drinking champagne at 8 o'clock in the morning? What's wrong with that? I haven't got a problem with that. I can't fathom why people would.

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

The only thing more embellished than Floyd Mayweather's pay-per-view buys is Floyd Mayweather's net worth. But his spending habits are real.

I am on an expense account that would blow your mind.

To be extravagant you need money. True. But you do not need your own money.

I am what I am; you can like it or love it. It feels good to blow fifty grand and think nothing of it.

Every spendthrift passion has its attendant courtiers.

I don't believe in spending money lavishly, now that I'm making money.

I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

By 21, I was earning six figures a week. By 23, I had a Ferrari. It was nuts.

I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.

There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of wealth.

I do not think that you can spend yourself rich.

It's always possible to spend more money.

I'm a big baller.

When I started to make money, I went a bit crazy. Once, I went to the race track and woke up the next morning owning a horse.

Anybody who probably lives alone and they have three or four cars, that's probably somebody that's spending a lot of money that they don't need to.

At 24, I was probably making more than 95 percent of my friends. I was burning through money.

Every time I have a hit, I buy a Rolls.