If I own the Clippers, I can't bet: Mayweather gets real on eve of fight

If I own the Clippers, I can't bet: Mayweather gets real on eve of fight

Updated Mar. 5, 2020 1:46 a.m. ET

Floyd Mayweather rarely disappoints in an interview.

On Friday, he paid a visit via satellite to FOX Sports 1's "America's Pregame" and took questions on Saturday's welterweight unification fight against Marcos Maidana at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Check out the video above for the full interview. Here are some of our favorite quotes.

On where his focus is at ...

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"My focus is to go out there and do what I do best -- be smart and be first."

On Maidana wanting to make this a "streetfight" ...

"Forty-five (fighters have) tried to crack the May-Vinci Code ... we'll just have to see."

On the age-old question of whether he'll ever fight Manny Pacquiao ...

"I couldn't really care less about that, with a guy who's 2-2 in his last four fights."

On whether he's serious about wanting to own the Los Angeles Clippers in the wake of the Donald Sterling controversy ...

"I'm very serious. ... I know if I do become the owner of the Clippers, I can no longer bet."

On who will win Game 7 of Clippers-Warriors, which will be going on around the same time of his fight Saturday ...

"Hopefully the red, white, and blue ... the Clippers."

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