Mike Tyson Quotes

I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

Mike Tyson

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• I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • People
  • Life
  • Dream

• I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Day

• I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times.

  

  Wen Ho Lee
  • Truth
  • Best
  • Saying

• My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.

  

  Edmund White
  • Father
  • Young
  • Cowboy

• I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Me
  • Like
  • Idea

• Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Diva

• Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Future
  • Myself
  • Destiny

• I'm very passionate.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Very
  • Passionate

• Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Effort

• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• You know, everybody has a slogan, and once you beat people over the head with it so much, then that's what you'll eventually be called once you retire from the sport or whatever.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • People
  • Know
  • Retire

• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Step

• My parents were laborers so we lived on South Park, which was a low-income region of Seattle. You had a choice - you either joined or formed a gang or you let others bully you.

  

  Jack Bowman
  • Parents
  • Choice
  • Gang

• I'm not a big lingerie girl. I see it, and I love it, and I appreciate it, and sometimes I even buy it, and then it never gets worn. It just seems like kind of a wasted middle step. Either you're dressed or you're not. What is this in-between stuff?

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Appreciate

• You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes.

  

  Malcolm Bradbury
  • Think
  • Broken
  • Sheep

• I feel like with anything you choose to do in this world, there are always gonna be people who disagree. But I've had a lot more supporters than critics.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • World
  • Choose

• Gracious dying is a huge, macabre and expensive joke on the American public.

  

  Jessica Mitford
  • American
  • Dying

• For when God forbids us to kill, he not only prohibits us from open violence, which is not even allowed by the public laws, but he warns us against the commission of those beings which are esteemed lawful among men....Therefore, with regard to this precept of God, there ought to be no exception at all, but that it is always unlawful to put to death a man, whom God willed to be a sacred animal.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Men
  • Death

• We must always remember that all medical interventions have risk, and very little can be asserted with 100 percent certainty.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • Remember
  • Risk

• I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Remember
  • Played
  • Solo

• I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Risk
  • Occasion
  • Humiliating