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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.
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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.
Mike Tyson
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I don't do anything. My life sucks.
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I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.
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They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.
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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.
Mike Tyson -
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson -
If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.
Mike Tyson
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There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.
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People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?
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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.
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He was screaming like my wife.
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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.
Mike Tyson
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I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.
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I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.
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I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like.
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The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
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Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
Mike Tyson
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
Mike Tyson -
Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
Mike Tyson