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.
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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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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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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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.
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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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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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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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I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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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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