I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.
MIKE TYSONEveryone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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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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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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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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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
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Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.
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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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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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There’s nothing like confidence.
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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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