Mike Tyson Quotes
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Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.
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I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.
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Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.
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I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
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Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.
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No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge.
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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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Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.
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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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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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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 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 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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I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.
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I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.
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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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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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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'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
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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.