I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
MIKE TYSONNot to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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 human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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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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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
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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.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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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.
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My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It’s kind of a drug, a rush.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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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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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.
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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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I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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You never lose until you actually give up.
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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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