Mike Tyson Quotes
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I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.
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Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.
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I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.
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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'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
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I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.
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Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
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I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.
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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 can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
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Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.
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If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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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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You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
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This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.
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When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
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I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.
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You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
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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'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.