Mike Tyson Quotes
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It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy.
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I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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 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'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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Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
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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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It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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He was screaming like my wife.
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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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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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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.
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Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.
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There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.
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Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.
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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'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.
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I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.
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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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Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
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You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.