Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
MIKE TYSONI’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
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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.’
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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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 always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.
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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
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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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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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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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