Mike Tyson Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by Mike Tyson:
I just want to conquer people and their souls.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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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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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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I don't react to a tragic happening any more. 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.
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
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I'm going to gut you like a fish.
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Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
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I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
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I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
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I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.
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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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I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
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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 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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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
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People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
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I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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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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Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
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The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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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.
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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.
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I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
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I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?
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I love to hit people. I love to.
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I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
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I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
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I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
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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.
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Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
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I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
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I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
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I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
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I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
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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 ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
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I just want to be humble at all times.
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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
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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.
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
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I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
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I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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