I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
MIKE TYSONThe tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.
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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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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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We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
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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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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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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.
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I fight for perfection.
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