Mike Tyson Quotes
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When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.
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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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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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I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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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 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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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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 like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
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I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
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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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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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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.
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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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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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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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How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.
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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 come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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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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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.