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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.

Mike Tyson

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Fight Friendship Help Yourself
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
MIKE TYSON

Books Literature People Prison Reading
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
MIKE TYSON

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

Art Artist Ground Perfection Performance Stand Yourself
I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Hit Intimidate Myself People Try
I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Fight Goodness Myself Pay
There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Happiness Spirit Young
People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
MIKE TYSON

Care Love People Success Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Different Himself Love Man
Fighters are never who they appear to be.
MIKE TYSON

Appearance Fight
The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Mindset Ourselves Reality Travel
Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Humble People World
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.’
MIKE TYSON

Handle Let Go Ring Time Yourself
I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
MIKE TYSON

Best Change Mistake Myself People Respect Try
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.
MIKE TYSON

Experience Future Ourselves Past Return
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.
MIKE TYSON

Disturb Emotion Feeling Job Sorrow Yourself
There’s nothing like confidence.
MIKE TYSON

Confidence One Liner
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.
MIKE TYSON

Insult Myself People Poor Sympathy
I fight for perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Myself Perfection
My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
MIKE TYSON

Devastation Mortal Myself Power
Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
MIKE TYSON

Beginning Greatness High Time Warrior
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
MIKE TYSON

Leaving Old Smart Time Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Big Friendship Weakness Yourself
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
MIKE TYSON

Acquire Life Lose Myself Old Point
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
MIKE TYSON

Gratitude Instant Myself Nature
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
MIKE TYSON

Crazy God Greedy Himself Human Man Return
I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
MIKE TYSON

Enjoyment Fruit Life Myself

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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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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