Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.
MIKE TYSONEverybody 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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I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It’s kind of a drug, a rush.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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There’s nothing like confidence.
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Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.
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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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