Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
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.
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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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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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You never lose until you actually give up.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
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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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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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There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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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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Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!
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Anger is my biggest enemy in 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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