The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSONIt’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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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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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
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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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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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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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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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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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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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