Mike Tyson Quotes
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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 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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I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.
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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.
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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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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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My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.
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I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.
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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian.
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It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.
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He was screaming like my wife.
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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.
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I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
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People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
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There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.