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

Mike Tyson

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 TYSON

Help Order Preparation Problem Success Yourself
Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Oneself Planning
I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
MIKE TYSON

Freak History Myself
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
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
MIKE TYSON

Feeling Myself Society Time
A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
MIKE TYSON

Enemy Friendship Himself Man
I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
MIKE TYSON

Interview Myself Woman
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.
MIKE TYSON

Fast Late Myself People Speed
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
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.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Cry Emotional Myself Reaction Tragedy
People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
MIKE TYSON

Care Love People Success Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Evidence Friendship Relationship Time Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Accomplishment Dress Manipulation Time Way Window
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
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
MIKE TYSON

Fame Happiness Money Myself
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
Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
MIKE TYSON

Angry Best Enemy Life
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.
MIKE TYSON

Goodness Important Notice People Treat
The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Mindset Ourselves Reality Travel
Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
MIKE TYSON

Hard Time Hope
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
We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Hard Time Life Ourselves Struggle
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
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.
MIKE TYSON

Account Big Myself Regret Smoking
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
MIKE TYSON

God Learning Level Oneself Process Reason
I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
MIKE TYSON

Enjoyment Fruit Life Myself
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
MIKE TYSON

Crazy God Greedy Himself Human Man Return

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