At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
MIKE TYSONNot to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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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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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.
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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.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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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.
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We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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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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I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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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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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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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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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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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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Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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I fight for perfection.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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