Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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 the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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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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I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.
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I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.
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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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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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I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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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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Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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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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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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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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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 just want to conquer people and their souls.