I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
MIKE TYSONI fight for perfection.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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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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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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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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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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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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It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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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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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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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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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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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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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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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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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 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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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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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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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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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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