Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.
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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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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
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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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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
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You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
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I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
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If you have a lawyer, sometimes you can get out of trouble. I've gotten into a lot of trouble because I didn't have a lawyer. I've also had some bad lawyers, too. But the good ones, the ones I liked, they became me. They became whatever situation I was involved in. When I felt pain, so did they. When I succeeded, so did they. They became me. They became whatever the situation was that they became involved with.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.
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This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?
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There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
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I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
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No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.
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Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
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Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.