The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSONMy power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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I’m gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me…your great grandkids will say “wow, wasn’t that a bizarre individual?”
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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
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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.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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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.
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There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
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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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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.
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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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I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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