Mike Tyson Quotes
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If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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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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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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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.
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My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
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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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I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.
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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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Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.
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I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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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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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 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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Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
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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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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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Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.
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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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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.