The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSONI don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
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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.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.
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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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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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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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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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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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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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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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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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