This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?
MIKE TYSONAs human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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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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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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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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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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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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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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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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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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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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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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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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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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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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it’s pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge.
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
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