I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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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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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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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.’
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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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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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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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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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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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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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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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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