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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.

Mike Tyson

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
MIKE TYSON

Adversity Allow Average Myself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fear Help Illusion Yourself
Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
MIKE TYSON

Fast Late Myself People Speed
As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
MIKE TYSON

Freedom Human Leaving Suffering World
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.
MIKE TYSON

Gratitude Instant Myself Nature
There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Mistake Myself Wrong
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.
MIKE TYSON

Big Friendship Weakness Yourself
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
I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
MIKE TYSON

Freak History Myself
I fight for perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Myself Perfection
Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
MIKE TYSON

Care God Help Job Money Quit Thinking Yourself
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
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
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.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Hurt Man Reality Sports Thinking Tough
I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
MIKE TYSON

Best Change Mistake Myself People Respect Try
We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Hard Time Life Ourselves Struggle

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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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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