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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 felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
MIKE TYSON

Fear Feeling Fight Myself
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
MIKE TYSON

God Learning Level Oneself Process Reason
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.
MIKE TYSON

Accomplishment Dress Manipulation Time Way Window
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
My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
MIKE TYSON

Devastation Mortal Myself Power
If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
MIKE TYSON

Humble Visit Yourself
I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
MIKE TYSON

Death Kill Myself Right Talk
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fight Herself Lying
It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Goodness Reading Yourself
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
MIKE TYSON

Books Literature People Prison Reading
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
MIKE TYSON

Crazy God Greedy Himself Human Man Return
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
MIKE TYSON

Endurance Inspirational Motivational Perseverance
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
MIKE TYSON

Fame Happiness Money Myself
There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Happiness Spirit Young
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
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
I can’t change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I’m a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
MIKE TYSON

Change Fight Myself Positive Regular Strive
You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
MIKE TYSON

Disturb Emotion Feeling Job Sorrow Yourself
My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
MIKE TYSON

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

Adversity Allow Average Myself
People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
MIKE TYSON

Care Love People Success 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 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 TYSON

Children Greatness Myself Talk
Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
MIKE TYSON

Break Up Disappoint Investment Myself People Time
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
You never lose until you actually give up.
MIKE TYSON

Give Up Lose Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Experience Future Ourselves Past Return

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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