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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.

Mike Tyson

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It’s kind of a drug, a rush.
MIKE TYSON

Drugs Goal Hurt Kind Mercy Myself Object Wild
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.
MIKE TYSON

Death Fear Help Illusion Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Goodness Reading Yourself
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
MIKE TYSON

Determination Fight Man Physical Spiritual
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?
MIKE TYSON

Death Heritage Oppression Reality Thinking White Woman
Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
MIKE TYSON

Beginning Greatness High Time Warrior
What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
MIKE TYSON

Future History Myself Mystery Past
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
MIKE TYSON

Endurance Inspirational Motivational Perseverance
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

Competition Rival Spirit Struggle Yourself
Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Confidence Goodness Win Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Friendship Self Love Yourself
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
We’re all going to have tests in our life… We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
MIKE TYSON

Darkness Energy Life Ourselves Preparation Test
I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
MIKE TYSON

Interview Myself Woman
Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
MIKE TYSON

Change Fight Humble Sports Transformation Yourself
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 TYSON

Knowledge Learning Life Mindset Myself Wisdom

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