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.
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.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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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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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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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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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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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 feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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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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.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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