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.
MIKE TYSONEverybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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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.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
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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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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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I fight for perfection.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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