In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.
MIKE TYSONYou need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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Some people are faster than others; I’m just figuring it out later, that’s all. I’m getting smart too late and old too soon.
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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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People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
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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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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 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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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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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.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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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.
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Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did…That’s my biggest regret.
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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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I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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