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.
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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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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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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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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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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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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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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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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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.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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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