Mike Tyson Quotes: Mike Tyson is recognized as the most rebellious player of all time in boxing history. His nickname is “Iron Mike”. The boxer, who is 1.80 cm tall and weighs 98–100 kg, defeated his opponent by knockout in the 8th second in the 1st round in his first professional match in March 1985.
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‘”I am just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you ca not make a lie and a truth go together. This country was not built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime”‘
‘” I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it is egotistical, But I have it in me. I do not want to be a Tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls”‘
‘”Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area…I aimed for his ear…I wanted to bust his eardrum…Every punch had bad intentions…My record will last for immortality, It will never be broken…I want to live forever…I refuse to lose…I would have to be carried out dead to lose…I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.”‘
‘”I just do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it”‘
‘”For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.”‘
‘”I am not Mother Teresa, but I am not Charles Manson, either”‘
‘”I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did ont know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.”‘
‘”I feel like sometimes I was not meant for this society.”‘
‘”I hope I can improve. I am far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.”‘
‘”I know I am going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future”‘
‘”I always try to catch them right on the tip of the nose because I try to push the bone into the brain. I wanted to catch the guy and put him out with a punch cold, so I would have no complaints.”‘
‘”You can not stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.”‘
‘”Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.”‘
‘”I am just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too”‘
‘”A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.”‘
‘”When I fight someone I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.”‘
‘”People say Poor guy. That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. Poor guy, like I am some victim. There is nothing poor about me”‘
‘”I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children”‘
‘”I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.”‘
‘”Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!”‘
‘”I am a good friend, but I am a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die”‘
‘”How dare these boxers challenge me with their primative skills? It makes me angry. They are just as good as dead”‘
‘”Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the street and beg for quarters”‘
‘”My power is discombobutingly devastating, I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It is ludicrous these mortal is even attempt to enter my realm”‘
‘”I am addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos.’
‘”I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to o it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.”‘
‘”I am the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you do not believe it, check my cash register”‘,
‘”I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain”‘
‘”God lets everything happen for a reason. It is all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.””‘
‘”There is no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That is why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.”‘
‘”Not to be egotistical, but I do not think there is a man on the planet who can beat me..”‘
‘”I am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit them good, the fight is close to an end”‘
‘”My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am to sensitive a person”‘
‘” YES, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old to soon…smart to late.’
‘”I am just happy I am not a phoney.”‘
‘” The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.’
‘”I am not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I am right.”‘
‘”You never lose until you actually give up.”‘
‘”I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”‘
‘” I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad”‘
‘”Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I did not have a cent”‘
‘”As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.”‘
‘”Anyone with a grain of sence would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It is all lies. I have never laid a finger on her”‘
‘”Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.”‘
‘” That is all they said was wrong with me?”‘
‘” I normally do not do interviews with woman unless I fornicate with them. So you should not talk anymore…unless you want to, you know”‘
‘” I am in trouble because I am normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people do not like themselves but I happen to be totally in love with myself”‘
‘”In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you ca not do both of them, you have got a problem.”‘
‘” I do not want to be grotesque, but when you are 330 pounds, it is hard to wipe your ass. You know?”‘
‘”This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life is reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just do not know how to deal with that right now. I do not even go to strip clubs no more. I do not know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I am not an angel or anything. I am still lascivious, periodically. I am just looking for some balance in my life”‘
‘” My style is impetuous, my defence is impregnable, and I am just ferocious! I want your heart! I want to eat your children! Praise be to Allah!”‘
‘”I did not know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire”‘
‘” As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want”‘
‘”Do not be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage”‘
‘” I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down”‘
‘”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 does not.”‘
‘”Fighting is a sport; if you are not humble it is going to bring humbleness to you.”‘
‘”I am just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.”‘
‘”Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.”‘
‘”Treat the world the way you want to be treated.”‘
‘”Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They ca not endure that much. It is all about the endurance. That is why they become killers. Because they can not endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.”‘
‘”There is nothing like confidence.”‘
‘”Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.”‘
‘”There is nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.”‘
‘”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, being shy, you just have to lose that.”‘
‘”Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon…smart too late.”‘
‘”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.”‘
‘”Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence… Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.”‘
‘”No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it is pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy is not doing it and that gives me a little edge”‘
‘”Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It is the determination and the will in the guy.”
‘”A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.”‘
‘”I am a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”‘
‘”I am addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.”‘
‘”You stand your ground and you perform your art. That is what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.”‘
‘”In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you are not a friend to yourself, there is no way you are gonna have any friends.”‘
‘”Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we are going to get out of it.”‘
‘”We all have to control our feelings. That is the thing that separates us from animals.”‘
‘”My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”‘
‘”Iam a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.”‘
‘”You have to compete in life because if you do not have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you will fall under the slightest struggle.”‘
‘”If you are not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.”‘
‘”There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don not make the same ones. We don not want to duplicate them.”‘
‘”The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.”‘
‘”Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It is like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can not control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.”‘
‘”Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.”‘
‘”You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.”‘
‘”We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight”‘
‘”Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That is important.”‘
‘”I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”‘
‘”I fight for perfection”‘
‘”People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.”‘
‘”Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I am really calm and collected. Even though I am fighting, I am calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can not fight at the highest level of your ability.”‘
‘”The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone is not true with themselves.”‘
‘”Anger is my biggest enemy in life.”‘
‘”Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.”‘
‘”People love you when you are successful, but if you are not, who really cares about you?”‘
‘”Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It is all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.”‘
‘”When you are a great finisher, you will become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.”‘
‘”Not to be egotistical, but I don not think there is a man on this planet who can beat me”‘
‘”Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking”‘
‘”I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.”‘
‘”As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.”‘
‘”Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.”‘
‘”Fighters are never who they appear to be”‘
‘”Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!”‘
‘”Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they have gotten their ass kicked before”.’
‘”My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It is ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.”‘
‘”We are all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.”‘
‘”Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.”‘
‘”Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.”‘
‘”I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I was not gonna be denied.”‘
‘”I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.”‘
‘”I am not a good-looking guy. I do not care if my nose gets mashed.”‘
‘”Some people are faster than others; I am just figuring it out later, that is all. I am getting smart too late and old too soon.”‘
‘”I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.”‘
‘”If he is not dead, it does not count.”‘
‘”Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it is over, it ,s over, and that is it.”‘
‘”God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.”‘
‘”My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.”‘
‘”Whatever my situation, I am a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.”‘
‘”Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.”‘
‘”I am a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.”‘
‘”I am a good friend, but I am a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.”‘
‘”That equals to 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.”‘
‘”Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I did ot have a cent.”‘
‘”I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I have had in my life.”‘
‘”Dont be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage”‘
‘”My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”‘
‘”For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.”‘
‘”Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you will get burned.”‘
‘”The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I do not have any particular goal in sight.”‘
‘”I am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit them good, the fight is close to an end”‘
‘”I just look around and say, I am a mess. I don not know why I do things.”‘
‘”I am a man. I lived it and I am not afraid to die but when I die I am going to paradise and I am not worried.”‘
‘”Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.”‘
‘”Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”‘
‘”Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.”‘
‘”Everybody has got plans… until they get hit.”‘
‘”You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?”‘
‘”Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It is just a cycle.”‘
‘”Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.”‘,
