There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.
MIKE TYSONI’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.
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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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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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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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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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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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If you’re not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
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There’s nothing like confidence.
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In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you’re not a friend to yourself, there’s no way you’re gonna have any friends.
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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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I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
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I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’
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