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.
MIKE TYSONWhen Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
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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.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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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.
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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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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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