Mike Tyson Quotes
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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 felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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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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They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.
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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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I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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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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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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King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.
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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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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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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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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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I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for 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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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
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I don't do anything. My life sucks.
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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.