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Floyd Mayweather has said some stupid things through the years. Jeff Bottari/Getty Images

Somewhere inside Floyd Mayweather's caput, you'd like to think there is a delete or stop push. That little vocalism telling him to "shut up" or "watch what yous say earlier yous say it." In the foreground of boxing for the terminal 10 years, nosotros've constitute that apparently there isn't. Why is Mayweather missing the filter most contemporary pro athletes have?

Before Mayweather utters something inane, which he frequently does, you can well-nigh see the fume coming out of his ears before an hare-brained argument spills out, gets picked up, and before you know information technology's zapped to a million places in the real-fourth dimension, social media world nosotros live in today.

But before Facebook and Twitter became iconic icons attached to everything we currently do and see, Mayweather had a habit of saying idiotic things.

Here'due south a potpourri, past and present, of Mayweather's 15 most asinine quotes of all-fourth dimension—in descending gild:

xv. "I don't duck or dodge anybody," which is really a phrase Mayweather has said throughout his career, yet he's come up upwards with myriad excuses why he'south never got into the ring with Manny Pacquiao.

14. "Who has [Antonio] Margarito browbeaten to deserve a shot at me? Once he beat ii or three big names so nosotros'll fight. Me and Margarito, nosotros're not fighting to prove to the boxing fans who the all-time is. Who is Margarito? He don't bring s--- to the table," Mayweather used this every bit an excuse for non fighting Margarito. Margarito at the time was a very viable opponent.

Mayweather has a addiction of putting his pes in his mouth. Jeff Bottari/Getty Images

xiii. "I hate Bob Arum, he ain't s---; he's nothing but a liar, he lies well-nigh everything," an enraged Mayweather said later breaking with Acme Rank and making the move to rap impresario James Prince as his promoter in 1999. This came after Mayweather said a year earlier, "I accept the best promoter out there in Bob Arum. Bob Arum is the greatest promoter in history. I dearest Bob Arum. I love HBO."

12. "My team calls all the shots out of the ring, I call them in the band," something Mayweather repeated to me a number of times, though it's far from the truth. Money May calls the shots. When he broke away from Bob Arum, he made the decision. When he decided to pause away from his father, Floyd Sr., it was his call. Mayweather is king of the "Money Team," his traveling entourage.

11. "Absolutely not. I took the plea. Sometimes they put u.s.a. in a no-win state of affairs. I had no selection, but I don't worry about going to jail. Better men than me have been there. I'thousand pretty certain Martin Luther King'south been there, and Malcolm X. I have taken the expert with the good so I'll have the bad with the bad," Floyd Mayweather to Georgetown sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson on HBO's Speaking Out Special on April 21.

Mayweather has said some racially insensitive things in the past. Jeff Gross/Getty Images

10. "I'm not in the game for just the coin, I'one thousand in the game to be a fable. And to requite the fans and media all around the world heady fights," Mayweather said prior to fighting Carlos Baldomir in November 2006 for the WBC welterweight world championship. Then Money May put on a boxing display in which, if he put his human foot on the gas, would accept stopped Baldomir at any fourth dimension.

nine. "[Shane] Mosley will never fight me. I love to fight him. But you know he don't desire a dosage of truth," Mayweather said in 2007. The fact is, they did fight, and Mayweather won in dominating fashion. Only non before Mosley took the boxing world's breath away by jolting Mayweather in the second round, teetering for a moment.

8. "They talk about Kelly Pavlik, a white fighter, like he's the second coming. Or they get crazy over Manny Pacquiao. Only I'm a black fighter. Is it racial? Absolutely. They praise white fighters, they praise Hispanic fighters, whatever. But black fighters, they never praise," Mayweather said about HBO boxing commentators in July 2008.

Mayweather said some wacky things to HBO's Larry Merchant after beating Ortiz. Ethan Miller/Getty Images

7. "You know me. I'g running my rima oris a lot, and I'm looking for a guy to shut me up. If yous don't close me upwardly, I'm going to go along running my mouth. Nobody can beat me. There is no way to beat me," Mayweather has stated numerous times.

vi. "I'll trounce the s--- out of Manny Pacquiao. He knows that," Mayweather has said, simply we may never know because something always seems to make it the way of this ever happening: Olympic-style drug testing, supposed negotiations that took place (which Mayweather's people said didn't have identify) and Mayweather's most contempo proposal of a 60-40 split in favor of him.

5. "You know what I'one thousand going to do, considering you never give me a fair shake, so I'chiliad going to allow you talk to Victory Ortiz; I'm through put someone else up here and let them give me an interview. You lot never give me a fair milk shake. HBO needs to fire yous considering you don't know due south--- nearly boxing; you lot ain't s---; you're not s---," Mayweather said to HBO commentator Larry Merchant during the post-fight interview afterward knocking out Victory Ortiz.

Mayweather may never exist seen in the aforementioned light as The Greatest. Douglas A. Sonders/Getty Images

4. "I'thousand in the same shoes as Ali. They hate me when I'm at the summit, but one time my career is over, they're going to miss me," Mayweather told Dyson in the HBO Speak Out Special. Really? The same shoes equally Ali? Mayweather protested for being drafted into an unjust war that threatened his life and livelihood during a turbulent racial climate when whites and blacks, in some parts of the south, couldn't walk on the same sidewalk together? Really?

iii. "That'south a slave contract," Mayweather told and then-HBO caput Lou DiBella in October 1999, refusing to sign a contract for seven-fight, $12.five-million bargain. Mayweather also told me when I was doing a story for Band Magazine, "Why would I sign a contract like that. It's slave wages."

2. "We're going to melt that little yellow chump…Once I kick the midget ass, I don't want you all to jump on my d---. So you all better get on the bandwagon now...Once I stomp the midget, I'll make that mother f----- make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice…Nosotros're going to melt him with some cats and dogs," a Mayweather blaring public moment in September 2010, when he went on a Manny Pacquiao-bluster spewing into the photographic camera.

ane. "Ali was a smashing fighter, but I'm better. [Sugar Ray] Robinson was a great fighter, merely I'thou better," Mayweather told HBO'south cameras on 24/7 in edifice the hype motorcar for the May 1, 2010 Mayweather-Shane Mosley fight.

While Mayweather is the greatest fighter of this generation, this generation pales far in comparison to when Ali and Robinson fought. The talent pools of those eras were much, much deeper than they are now. Ali prevailed in the greatest era of the heavyweight division, and Robinson was in with killers like Henry Armstrong, Jake LaMotta, Gene Fullmer, Carmen Basilio and Kid Gavilan.

Ali was able to go away with proclaiming himself as "The greatest of all-time," rolling his eyes in his animated way and soliciting laughter. Certain, Ali believed it, but he besides had a genuine, jovial fashion in expressing it, far different than the big-headed cocky-infatuating manner Mayweather does.

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