Floyd Mayweather Jr. Quotes

What is the one-sentence summary of how you change the world? Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

All that time I spent chasing Yale was time I could have been using to actually make a difference in the world. Bravery, not perfection, was the key that unlocked all the doors I've walked through since.

I want to leave my own legacy and write my own story.

I want to leave a great legacy behind, not just be a quarterback drafted in the first round who doesn't produce.

It's always great to add to your legacy.

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

If you're bored, it's because someone else is fulfilling his dream. Become a bore. It's the most interesting thing you'll ever do.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

I want to leave my own legacy, make my own trail.

I want to leave a legacy, but to do that, I need to be on my best game.

You can spend your life watching other people win or beat your name into history.

The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle.

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.

It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Oh, I must be ambitious, mustn't I? I'm sure I always have been. I think you can only get away with pretending you're not for so long. After that, it becomes ridiculous.

When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.

I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?

When I started travelling, I would go to a city and be on television and I used to get the question, 'Why do you work? If I were you, I'd just go and lie on a beach somewhere.' And I'd answer, 'Well, I wanted to make something of my life.'

There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on, you know.

I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people.

I just want to complete my legacy.

There's so much more I want to do. I refuse to get to 50 and wait at home for the phone to ring.