Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.
MIKE TYSONMy 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.
More Mike Tyson Quotes
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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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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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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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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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I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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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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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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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.
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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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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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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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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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