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.
MIKE TYSONYou stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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I can’t change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I’m a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
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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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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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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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Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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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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You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.
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In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
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There’s nothing like confidence.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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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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