At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.
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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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We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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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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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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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.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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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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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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There’s nothing like confidence.
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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 Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
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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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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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