Mike Tyson Quotes
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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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 refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.
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Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.
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These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.
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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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Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?
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I fight for perfection.
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I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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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If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.
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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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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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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.
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The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.
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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 was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.
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Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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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.