[[File:01 Patterson grave.JPG|thumb|Nisa di makam Floyd Patterson's grave.]]Patterson mengidap penyakit [[Alzheimer's disease|Alzheimer']] dan [[prostate cancer|kanker prostat]] pada tahun-tahun terakhir hidupnya. Dia meninggal di rumahnya di [[New Paltz]] tanggal 11 Mei 2006 pada usia 71 tahun.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holley |first1=Joe |title=Floyd Patterson; Heavyweight Champion Rose from Poverty |url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051101854.html |access-date=18 May 2019 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=12 May 2006}}</ref> Jenazahnya dimakamkan di New Paltz Rural Cemetery di New Paltz, [[Ulster County]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Levym Alan H. |title=Floyd Patterson: A Boxer and a Gentleman |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WiTLhuqN1AQC&pg=PA263 |date=22 September 2008 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-3950-8 |pages=263–}}</ref><ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0666206/bio Floyd Patterson]. IMDb</ref>
==Kutipan==
Baris 116:
* "Mereka berkata saya adalah petinju paling sering dipukul roboh, tapi saya juga paling sering bangkitt."<ref>{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Dahlberg |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/11/AR2006051100818.html |title=Former Boxer Floyd Patterson Dies at 71 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=2006-05-11}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> (Kutipan ini digunakan dalam episode sepuluh serial TV ''[[V (2009 TV series)|V]]'' tahun 2009)
* "Ketika kalian punya jutaan dolar, kalian juga punya jutaan teman."<ref>[http://jco.usfca.edu/boxing/rape.html Celestial Timepiece – A Joyce Carol Oates Patchwork]. Jco.usfca.edu. Retrieved on 2016-09-30.</ref>
* Tentang tinju: "Itu seperti sedang jatuh cinta kepada seorang wanita. SheDia canbisa betidak unfaithfulsetia, shedia canbisa bemenjadi meankejam, shedia canbisa bemenjadi cruelbengis, buttetapi ititu doesn'ttak matter. Ifpenting, youjika lovekamu hermencintainya, youkamu want hermenginginkannya, evenbahkan thoughmeski shedia canbisa domelakukan yousegala allyang kindsberbahaya of harmkepadamu. It'sItu thesama sameseperti withaku medan and boxingtinju. ItTinju canbisa domelakukan mesegala allhal kindsyang of harm butmembayakanku, Itetapi loveaku itmenyukainya."<ref>{{cite book |last=Cosell |first=Howard |date=1973 |title=COSELL |url=https://archive.org/details/cosellcose00cose |url-access=registration |publisher=Playboy Press |page=[https://archive.org/details/cosellcose00cose/page/167 167] |isbn=119931000X |author-link=Howard Cosell}}</ref>
