Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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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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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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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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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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Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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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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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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I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.
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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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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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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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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 paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.
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Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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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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He was screaming like my wife.
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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.