Mike Tyson Quotes
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.
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We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.
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One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.
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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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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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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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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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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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Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.
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Things can change. Life is all a learning process.
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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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Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
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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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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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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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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
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I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
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He was crying in there, making woman gestures.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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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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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.