Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
MIKE TYSONThere’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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I can’t change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I’m a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
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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.
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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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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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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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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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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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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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Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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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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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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There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
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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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