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 TYSONEverybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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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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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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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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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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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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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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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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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