Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
MIKE TYSONYou 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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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.
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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
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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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There’s nothing like confidence.
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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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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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You never lose until you actually give up.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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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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Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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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.
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I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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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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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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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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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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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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This white woman came up to me, and I’m thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I’m like, “Who am I? Where’s my heritage?
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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