If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
MIKE TYSONPeople 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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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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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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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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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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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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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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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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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.
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Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend’s gonna have to prove they’re your friend, and you’re gonna have to prove you’re their friend.
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It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
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