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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

Mike Tyson

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

Build Independence Learning Need Yourself
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
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
MIKE TYSON

Fame Happiness Money Myself
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon, smart too late.
MIKE TYSON

Leaving Old Smart Time Yourself
I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Fight Goodness Myself Pay
Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Humble People World
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
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
MIKE TYSON

Feeling Myself Society Time
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
We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Hard Time Life Ourselves Struggle
I fight for perfection.
MIKE TYSON

Fight Myself Perfection
There’s nothing like confidence.
MIKE TYSON

Confidence One Liner
It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
MIKE TYSON

Family Fight Man Natural Try Yourself
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.
MIKE TYSON

Competition Rival Spirit Struggle Yourself
Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
MIKE TYSON

Bad Hurt Man Reality Sports Thinking Tough
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
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSON

Character Deal Drugs Myself Pathetic Sympathy
My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It’s ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
MIKE TYSON

Devastation Mortal Myself Power
You never lose until you actually give up.
MIKE TYSON

Give Up Lose Yourself
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
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.
MIKE TYSON

Himself Night Remember Slow Time
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
Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
MIKE TYSON

Ego Man Myself Planet Thinking
I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
MIKE TYSON

Death Kill Myself Right Talk
The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
MIKE TYSON

Dangerous Mindset Ourselves Reality Travel
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.
MIKE TYSON

Darkness Energy Life Ourselves Preparation Test
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
MIKE TYSON

Books Literature People Prison Reading

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