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 TYSONIt’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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 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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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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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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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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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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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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There’s nothing like confidence.
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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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