Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.
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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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I'm just protecting my children and making sure I pull them in the right direction so they don't end up like me with having to go through all that hardship. They may not survive so it's all about putting them on the right track.
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Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.
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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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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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Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.
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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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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 don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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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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It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy.
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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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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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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'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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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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Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.
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I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.
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I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
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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.