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.
MIKE TYSONNot to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
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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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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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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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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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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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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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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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