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.
MIKE TYSONConfidence breeds success & success breeds confidence, Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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 nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
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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.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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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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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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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
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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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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.
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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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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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You never lose until you actually give up.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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