Mike Tyson Quotes
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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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It's just what I'm born to do, I'm born to entertain people. I could do it for thirty-thousand people or three people, it's just what I know how to do. My soul objective only is for me to have the audience say 'when's the next time I can see him?' That's what I do.
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I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
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[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
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I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.
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You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.
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We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.
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I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.
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What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.
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Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.
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Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head.
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I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.
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My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.
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I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.
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I want your heart, I want to eat your children.
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Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.
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I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.
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Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you.