Mike Tyson Quotes
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I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).
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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
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Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.
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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'm just happy I'm not a phoney.
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When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
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I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
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I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.
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I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.
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Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.
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To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.
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I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.
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I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
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I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.