Mike Tyson Quotes
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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.
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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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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
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Things can change. Life is all a learning process.
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I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.
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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.
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I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.
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I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
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There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
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Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.
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Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.
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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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I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.
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I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
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I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.
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Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.