My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
MIKE TYSONThe one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
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It’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 always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.
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What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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There’s nothing like confidence.
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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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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.
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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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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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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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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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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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I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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