Mike Tyson Quotes
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
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I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.
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He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.
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I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
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I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
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I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.
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Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.
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Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.
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I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian.
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Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.
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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.
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I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.
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Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
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I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
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If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.
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He was crying in there, making woman gestures.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.