Floyd Mayweather Jr. Quotes

Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.

Once we got to the race track, everybody called me Bubba - we created a brand around it. Now it's become a household name.

I'm not so widely known that I'm going to be pigeonholed.

People know me, and want to know me, as a baller more than anything else.

You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.

Ninety-nine percent of people now call me The Hoff - and it's out of respect.

Icon. What is an icon? When someone is iconic it means they have established a certain kind of legacy possibly, and I think it does come with time. It's something in the arts, I feel. Maybe not, maybe it doesn't have to be in the arts exactly. I'm not really sure. But I don't think you are born an icon.

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I don't ever want it to be about me. A friend of mine told me, 'The difference between fame and notoriety is fame is when people know you, and notoriety is when people know your work.' The first one is not respectable, but the second one is, because that leaves a legacy.

I'm essentially a humorist and, I think, a pretty good one. I've known all along that 'My Friend Dahmer' is the one book I'll be most known for, and in a way, that's a drag, as it's nothing like the rest of the work I've done or will do moving forward. But the way I figure, it's better to have a best-known work than not to have one at all.

Get them to sing your song, and then they will know who you are.

It's easy to remember. That's part of the reason why it's never surprised me or bothered me that somebody doesn't know my real name. What's easier to remember: Danielle Fishel or Topanga? Topanga sticks with you.

My reputation precedes me now.

I don't want to retire on the independent scene. I don't want my legacy to be remembered as that.

Name recognition takes time.

If I'm out somewhere to eat and people yell, 'Hey, Red Rifle!' I'm kind of like, 'Oh, come on!' I've learned to accept it because I know the name isn't going anywhere.

Every single person you can think of called me Paper Boi.

You'd better hurry up, they'll be waiting for 'the Chosen Captain' — 'The Boy Who Scored'— whatever they call you these days.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

I want to be an icon.

I don't want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.

I want people to look at a checkerboard and think of me!

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.