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.
MIKE TYSONGod 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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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?
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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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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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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.
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I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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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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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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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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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No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it’s pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge.
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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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