Mike Tyson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.”
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“Five heads are definitely better than one when they're thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.”
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“As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.”
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“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.”
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“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.”
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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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“I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.”
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“God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.”
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“I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.”
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“I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! I'm Alexander! He's no Alexander! I'm the best ever. There's never been anyone as ruthless as me. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!”
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“I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.”
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“When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.”
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“To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.”
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“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.”
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“Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.”
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“Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.”
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“In the scheme of life, in emotion and loss, I responded the way I did. I lost. I shouldn't have responded that way. I've had some people tell me that I did a great thing - sticking up for myself - but to me, personally, with the way that I handled my emotions, I lost. But I learned. That will not happen again.”
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“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.”
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“I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.”
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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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“What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.”
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“I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.”
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“I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.”
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“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.”
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“My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.”
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“You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.”
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“My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
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“I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.”
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“Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.”
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