I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
MIKE TYSONMy biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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