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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.
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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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I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.
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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 could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
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I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?
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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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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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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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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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I live for the moment to hit people.
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One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.
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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
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What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.
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I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.
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I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.
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I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.
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It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.
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I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
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You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.
Mike Tyson