Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage.
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People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
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I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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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 think I'll take a bath in his blood.
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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 felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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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 the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
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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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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.
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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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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.
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Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian.
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I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
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Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.
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I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.