Mike Tyson Quotes
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I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
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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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Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
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We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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I just want to conquer people and their souls.
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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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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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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?
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I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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I want your heart, I want to eat your children.
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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.
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You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.
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There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
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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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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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Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.
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I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.
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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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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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I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
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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.'