I fight for perfection.
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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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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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 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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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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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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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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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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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.
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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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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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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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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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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.
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There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
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