Mike Tyson on leaving
Mike Tyson91 quotes“Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.”
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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
Mike TysonMike Tyson When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
Mike TysonMike Tyson We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
Mike TysonMike Tyson You never lose until you actually give up.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
Mike TysonMike Tyson I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
Mike TysonMike Tyson These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.
Mike TysonMike Tyson Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
Mike TysonMike Tyson 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?
Mike TysonMike Tyson In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.
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Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
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Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
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I knew you would leave someday; And from there a poet will be born from the ashes.
Odd KenOdd Ken The wind is us– it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac You’ve got the kind of soul that leaves my heart open overflowing with the light you bring.
Isabel RocioIsabel Rocio A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
Emily BronteEmily Bronte The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.
Truman CapoteTruman Capote Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.
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