Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
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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'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian.
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You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.
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No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
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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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I fight for perfection.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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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 like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
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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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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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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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The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.
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How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.
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We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.
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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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I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women...say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually.
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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.