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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

Mike Tyson

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It’s kind of a drug, a rush.
MIKE TYSON

Drugs Goal Hurt Kind Mercy Myself Object Wild
I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
MIKE TYSON

Brutal Conqueror Myself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Knowledge Learning Life Mindset Myself Wisdom
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.
MIKE TYSON

Help Order Preparation Problem Success Yourself
People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
MIKE TYSON

Care Love People Success Yourself
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 TYSON

Dangerous Goodness Reading Yourself
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 TYSON

Darkness Energy Life Ourselves Preparation Test
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.
MIKE TYSON

Fast Late Myself People Speed
A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Friendship Himself Man
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.
MIKE TYSON

Big Friendship Weakness Yourself
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 TYSON

Accomplishment Dress Manipulation Time Way Window
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fight Herself Lying
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
MIKE TYSON

Acquire Life Lose Myself Old Point
I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
MIKE TYSON

Fear Feeling Fight Myself
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
MIKE TYSON

Determination Fight Man Physical Spiritual
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
MIKE TYSON

God Learning Level Oneself Process Reason

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