“Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.”

What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.

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.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

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.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.

If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

I don’t react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don’t care about anything. It’s just too hard for me to get emotional. I can’t cry no more.

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.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

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.

Think of mission like the paddles of a defibrillator applied to the chest of a dying church.

Basically what’s happening is I’m pleading guilty to possessing and having plants and not guilty to the charges of supply.

To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.

Instructions are supposed to translate the law into lay terms that the jury can apply to the facts as they determine them.

My own childhood showed me that when it comes to loving your kids, concepts like that don’t apply.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.

The institutions that we’ve built up over the years to protect our individual privacy rights from the government don’t apply to the private sector.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to corporations.