Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.
MIKE TYSONBoxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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 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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What I’ve done in the past is history and what I’m gonna do in the future is a mystery.
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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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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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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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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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I fight for perfection.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.
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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.
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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.
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