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 TYSONAt one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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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.
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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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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?
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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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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Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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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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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.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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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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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
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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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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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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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