Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
MIKE TYSONI don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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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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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’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.
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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.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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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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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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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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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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There’s nothing to fear but fear itself. It’s an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it’s not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.
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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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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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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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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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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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