black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

Mike Tyson

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.
MIKE TYSON

Accomplishment Give Up Greatness Happiness Life Lose Lost Myself Sensitive Willing
I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
MIKE TYSON

Death Kill Myself Right Talk
I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
MIKE TYSON

Best Change Mistake Myself People Respect Try
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
Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
MIKE TYSON

Destroy Life Love Myself
The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Mindset Ourselves Reality Travel
I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
MIKE TYSON

Brutal Conqueror Myself
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
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
MIKE TYSON

Big Drugs Greatness World
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
There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Mistake Myself Wrong
We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
MIKE TYSON

Control Feeling Ourselves
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?
MIKE TYSON

Death Heritage Oppression Reality Thinking White Woman
I don’t react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don’t care about anything. It’s just too hard for me to get emotional. I can’t cry no more.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Cry Emotional Myself Reaction Tragedy
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.
MIKE TYSON

Himself Night Remember Slow Time
I fight for perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Myself Perfection
We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Hard Time Life Ourselves Struggle
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
MIKE TYSON

Oneself Respect True
Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
MIKE TYSON

Change Fight Humble Sports Transformation Yourself
There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Happiness Spirit Young
Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
MIKE TYSON

Care God Help Job Money Quit Thinking Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Family Fight Man Natural Try Yourself
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
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.
MIKE TYSON

Dreams Hands Myself Reach Stardom
There’s nothing like confidence.
MIKE TYSON

Confidence One Liner
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.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Friendship Self Love Yourself
Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Humble People World

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Mike Tyson Quotes