Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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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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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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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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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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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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
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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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What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to “upgrade my mind.” That’s just what I wanted to do my whole life.
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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.
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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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There’s nothing like confidence.
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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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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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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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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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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 be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.
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I’m a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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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.
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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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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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