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Everyone has a plan till they get punched in the mouth.
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Greatness is given to us all. But only a select few can handle the ride.
I want to conquer people and their souls.
Mike Tyson Quotes
Discipline, doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
I wish one of you guys had children, so I could kick them in their fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you could feel my pain because that’s the pain I have waking up every day
I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.
[6/11/05, on his loss to Irish boxer Kevin McBride] I felt like I was 120 years old. I don’t think I have it anymore.
I’m from Brownsville Brooklyn and I’m not scared of nobody. In the ring or out the ring, if they gotta gun or a knife, and I’ll show him (Lennox Lewis) that too
For me to achieve… I had to regard myself as greater than what I was. In other words, I had to fake it until I made it.
Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people
Sometimes I’d give my mother a hundred bucks and she wouldn’t pay me back. She didn’t respect me like that. I’d say, ‘You owe me some money, Ma.’ And she’d just say, ‘You owe me your life, boy. I’m not paying you back.
I may like, and fornicate more than other people, it’s just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid, you know what I mean? I’ve been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blow job?
A man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy of himself
My career has been over since 1990 . . . When I look at my fans, they don’t love me. They love what I do. I’m an entertainer. I’m a performer. I entertain them. That’s what I do.
My main objective in the fight is to be a professional but to kill him
Listen, Holyfield’s not the tough warrior everyone says he is! He got little nicks on his ears and he quit! I got an..I got one eye! I got one eye! He’s not impaired! He got ears! I got one eye! Big deal! He takes one I got another one! I’m ready to fight him right now!
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
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.
It’s good to be successful and have financial status but if you’re only gonna live for the money, you’re only gonna reach a certain status and I’m in there for greatness and peace of mind.
Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled
If they don’t have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don’t know how to live in the middle of life.
Everyone knows you’re a transvestite and you’re in love with me.
There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books – that [Lev Tolstoy] crap. People shouldn’t read that stuff. When we read those books, what purpose does it serve in this day and time?
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets, and beg for quarters.
These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli is the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.
In America, we’re good at blowing things up but not so good at knowing where the pieces will land
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
I can’t wait til the 28th….I’m gonna make you my girlfriend.
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
That equals being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke
My power is discombobulating and devastating. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm
Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it
I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
You’re sweet. I’m gonna make sure you kiss me good with those big lips
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Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.
These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it’s the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other…but we need that money
Do you think you know the difference between a hero and a coward, Mike? Well, there is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does
I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn’t die, it doesn’t count. If he’s not dead, it doesn’t count.
When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness… I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, and being shy, you just have to lose that.
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as I get older, life is totally about losing everything
I don’t know, man, I guess I’m gonna fade into Bolivian.
Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.
As a young kid, I used to watch boxing films and I would stop the film when I’d see something I liked – the way he bowed, the way he’d hit somebody or the way he stood with his belt – and I would rewind it and emulate it. Over and over again. I liked the villains best because you never forgot them.
I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time.
I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn’t gonna be denied.
Fighting is a sport; if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.
I shouldn’t have done that, but I was irritated, tired, high and pissed off
I’m sorry I let everybody down. I’m fighting just to pay my bills. I don’t have the stomach for this anymore… I don’t have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people … I wish they could get their money back.
The ability to apply discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.
Now, when we see a boxing match, we know who’s gonna win before they start. Very rarely do they have even-matched boxers. And the promoters use only their fighters to fight each other. That’s almost like a slave contract.
He dropped his guard, and I hit him instantaneously.
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If you don’t do it for passion and love, the emotional outcome will be disastrous.
Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want
My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious
Mostly, people who come from my neighborhood are statistics, like a lot of my friends. It was just a dog-eat-dog world. That’s how it was. Learning to steal and fight at a young age, I was in a lot of trouble.
My punches were very accurate…and pinpoint.
I’m in trouble because I’m normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don’t like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.
Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.
Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it
Your mind is not your friend, Mike. I hope you know that. You have to fight with your mind, control it, put it in its place. You have to control your emotions. Fatigue in the ring is ninety percent psychological. It’s just the excuse of a man who wants to quit.
If I do a stage show with a big screen, it’s because I guess people think I’m a notable guy. That’s what I want to do. I love entertaining people. That’s what links boxing and acting.
I know if I catch them cleanly, they’ll no matter who they are
You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.
Life is just a beautiful process of dying. As soon as you are born the process begins.
Unfortunately, sometimes you can’t have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don’t have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.
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 really bad in this sport
God, it would be good to be a fake somebody, rather than a real nobody.
I think the average person thinks I’m a ****ing nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. That’s what I believe.
I don’t react to a tragic happening anymore. 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.
We have to evolve to be a better generation than those that came before us.
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
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.
The boxing’s the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that’s the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you’re sore, and deep in your mind you say, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ I push that out of my mind
I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I’m going to strip them of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain.
When you see me smash somebody’s skull, you enjoy it
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