Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
MIKE TYSONThe mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
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People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
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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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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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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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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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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’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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