I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
MIKE TYSONI 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.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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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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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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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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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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I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.
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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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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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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.
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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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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.
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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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