I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
MIKE TYSONBoxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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You never lose until you actually give up.
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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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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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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.
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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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.
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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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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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 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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There’s nothing like confidence.
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I always had a lot of responsibilities. I just didn’t take them. I just decided to take care of my responsibilities, live up to them. That’s a pretty interesting job. It’s harder than being heavyweight champion of the world.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
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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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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.
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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.
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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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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
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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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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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