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.
MIKE TYSONYou have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.
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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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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
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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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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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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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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
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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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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 drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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