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.
MIKE TYSONYou 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.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
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I fight for perfection.
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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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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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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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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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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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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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Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
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You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle.
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Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
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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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