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.
MIKE TYSONIn 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 biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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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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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Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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There’s nothing like confidence.
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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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You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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I fight for perfection.
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These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.
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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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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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We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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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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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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Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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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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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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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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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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