Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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I am not a role model.
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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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Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.
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There's nothing like confidence.
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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Things can change. Life is all a learning process.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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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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He was crying in there, making woman gestures.
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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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I can deal with adversity.
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I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
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In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
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Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.
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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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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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In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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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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On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.