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 TYSONI’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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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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Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
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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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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 fight for perfection.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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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.
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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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There’s nothing like confidence.
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