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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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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.
Mike Tyson
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One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'
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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 want your heart, I want to eat your children.
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I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.
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Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.
Mike Tyson
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I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.
Mike Tyson -
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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If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.
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We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
Mike Tyson
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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.
Mike Tyson -
There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.
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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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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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I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.
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Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.
Mike Tyson
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Things can change. Life is all a learning process.
Mike Tyson -
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.
Mike Tyson -
I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad.
Mike Tyson