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.
MIKE TYSONHard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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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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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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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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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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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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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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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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What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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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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