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 TYSONThese 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.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
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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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I can’t change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I’m a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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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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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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