At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
MIKE TYSONI’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?”
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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 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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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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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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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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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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It’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.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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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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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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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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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’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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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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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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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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I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
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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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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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