Floyd Mayweather Jr. Quotes

When I was growing up, my family was so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention.

I was an only child. We were so poor, my parents and I had the same room.

My father was unemployed and I was the eldest of seven children. We were very poor. And when you ask how did we support ourselves, the only funding that we had was unemployment payments.

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni.

I grew up incredibly poor and went to school and had a very average upbringing.

We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.

I was a lower middle-class kid. My family had no money. There was no room in our small house where there were already four kids, including myself, living.

I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

I was not somebody who watched a lot of films. We couldn't afford to. We came from struggling family background.

I didn't have life that good coming up. I wasn't born with a lot of money. We weren't dirt poor, but we weren't rich. All I knew was struggle.

I'm from Pemberton, Wigan, and was born into a poor family. I grew up on a council estate. My dad was at first in the Army and then in the coal mines. My mother had four children by the time she was 23 so money was always tight.

When I was born, my family was so poor that there was no money to buy food. So the church bought groceries for us - there wasn't any kind of privilege.

My parents both came from working-class backgrounds, my father particularly. He came from a very poor family, 12 of them lived in a little three-bedroom terrace house in Fulham, it was very small with an outside loo and a tin bath on the scullery wall.

My dad was a civil servant before he retired, and my mum worked, too. We could not always get three meals in a day; sometimes we'd struggle.

My dad grew up with straight-up no running water. He slept in a twin bed with his two sisters and his mom, like 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory' style: like, feet at the head, feet at the head alternating. And then I think his dad slept on, like, a bed of newspapers on a floor in their apartment.

My parents divorced, my brothers and I ended up living with my mother, and we were living with the choice of heating or eating. My mum was working, but she needed financial support to make ends meet. I had to have free school dinners and free school uniforms.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.

My parents used to struggle to put food on our plates. Whatever little money they got, we had to make do with it.

I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.

I came from nothing. We didn't have money, so I started work at 14 because I really needed the money.

I mean, when you grow up in the inner city and you grow up in a single-parent household, that's - those are humbling times, you know?

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

I had a really hard time growing up; we were a large family, and we didn't have much money at home.

My brother and I slept on the couch. I didn't get my own room until I was in college. We didn't even have a telephone until I was in college.