People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
MIKE TYSONI’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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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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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it’s pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge.
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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 need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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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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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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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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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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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
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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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