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 TYSONWhat 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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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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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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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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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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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