Mike Tyson Quotes
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.
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Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking.
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You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.
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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'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
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To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.
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There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
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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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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.
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I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.
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I'm just happy I'm not a phoney.
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I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.
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I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.
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Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.
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I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.
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My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.
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These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.
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I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end.
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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.