Mike Tyson Quotes
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Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
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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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Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.
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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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Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around 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 just want to conquer people and their souls.
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To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.
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Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.
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I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
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I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
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I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.
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Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.
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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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I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.
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What I want to do in life is just be a respectful man and just take care of my children and guide my family in the right direction. I'm not looking to be a chairperson, I'm not looking to be ambassador or anything in that capacity.
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.
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When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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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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The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.
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I guess I'll fade off into bolivian.
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I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.