I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’
MIKE TYSONSometimes 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.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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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?
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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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