Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
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It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.
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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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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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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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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I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
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How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.
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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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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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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.
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I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.
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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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I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.
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If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.
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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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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.
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Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
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I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.
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I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.
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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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Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.
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Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.