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 TYSONPeople love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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.
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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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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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I fight for perfection.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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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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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.
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I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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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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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.
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