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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.

Mike Tyson

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
MIKE TYSON

Fear Feeling Fight Myself
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?”
MIKE TYSON

Children Greatness Myself Talk
Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Fight Friendship Help Yourself
In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
MIKE TYSON

Achievement Fake Myself Order Regard
Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
MIKE TYSON

Karma Treat World Yourself
The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
MIKE TYSON

Big Drugs Greatness World
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
MIKE TYSON

Books Literature People Prison Reading
I fight for perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Myself Perfection
Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Humble People World
A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Friendship Himself Man
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSON

Character Deal Drugs Myself Pathetic Sympathy
I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
MIKE TYSON

Best Change Mistake Myself People Respect Try
Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
MIKE TYSON

Break Up Disappoint Investment Myself People Time
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fight Herself Lying
We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
MIKE TYSON

Control Feeling Ourselves
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.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Friendship Self Love Yourself
I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
MIKE TYSON

Addiction Chaos Life Myself Perfection
Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
MIKE TYSON

Change Fight Humble Sports Transformation Yourself
I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
MIKE TYSON

Death Kill Myself Right Talk
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Art Artist Ground Perfection Performance Stand Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Account Big Myself Regret Smoking
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.
MIKE TYSON

Family Fight Man Natural Try Yourself
People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
MIKE TYSON

Fight People Reflection Relate
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.
MIKE TYSON

Knowledge Learning Life Mindset Myself Wisdom
I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
MIKE TYSON

Adversity Allow Average Myself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fear Help Illusion Yourself
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
MIKE TYSON

Build Independence Learning Need Yourself

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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