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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I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.
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I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
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Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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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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Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
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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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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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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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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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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 a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.
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When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
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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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In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.
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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'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.
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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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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?