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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.

Mike Tyson

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?”
MIKE TYSON

Children Greatness Myself Talk
I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Hit Intimidate Myself People Try
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
MIKE TYSON

Determination Fight Man Physical Spiritual
I don’t react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don’t care about anything. It’s just too hard for me to get emotional. I can’t cry no more.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Cry Emotional Myself Reaction Tragedy
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.
MIKE TYSON

Experience Future Ourselves Past Return
This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?
MIKE TYSON

Death Heritage Oppression Reality Thinking White Woman
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
MIKE TYSON

Oneself Respect True
When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
MIKE TYSON

Accomplishment Give Up Greatness Happiness Life Lose Lost Myself Sensitive Willing
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.
MIKE TYSON

Champion Decision Interest Myself Responsibility World
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.
MIKE TYSON

Different Himself Love Man
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Art Artist Ground Perfection Performance Stand Yourself
Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Fight Friendship Help Yourself
Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Confidence Goodness Win Yourself
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.’
MIKE TYSON

Handle Let Go Ring Time Yourself
Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
MIKE TYSON

Ego Man Myself Planet Thinking
I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
MIKE TYSON

Addiction Chaos Life Myself Perfection
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.
MIKE TYSON

Darkness Early Morning Myself Reason Run Wake Up
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
MIKE TYSON

Myself Person Weakness
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 TYSON

Knowledge Learning Life Mindset Myself Wisdom
People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
MIKE TYSON

Fight People Reflection Relate
I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
MIKE TYSON

Fear Feeling Fight Myself
Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
MIKE TYSON

Karma Treat World Yourself
The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Mindset Ourselves Reality Travel
Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
MIKE TYSON

Apply Confidence Genius Properly Success
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fight Herself Lying
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
MIKE TYSON

Acquire Life Lose Myself Old Point
Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
MIKE TYSON

Change Fight Humble Sports Transformation Yourself

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