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 TYSONDiscipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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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’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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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 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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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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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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