What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
MIKE TYSONEvery win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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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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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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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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I fight for perfection.
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