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.
MIKE TYSONThis 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?
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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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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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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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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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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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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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People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
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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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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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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”
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