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.
MIKE TYSONIn 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.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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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No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it’s pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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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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I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves.
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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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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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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