You never lose until you actually give up.
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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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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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 don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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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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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 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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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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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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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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I fight for perfection.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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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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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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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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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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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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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love 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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