Mike Tyson Quotes About Sports
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I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
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I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
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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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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 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 just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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Fade into Bolivian, I guess.
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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 can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
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I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
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I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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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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The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
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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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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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I just want to conquer people and their souls.
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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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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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I fight for perfection
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I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
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