Mike Tyson Quotes

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  • 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.

  • I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

  • 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.

  • This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

    "Fight disintegrates after Tyson bites Holyfield" by Steve Carp, lasvegassun.com. June 28, 1997.
  • I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

  • I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

    Citizens Of Peace Magazine Interview, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.
  • I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

    "The chips run out in Las Vegas" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.
  • My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

    "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'" by Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.
  • I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

    Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.
  • I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

    "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.
  • 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.

  • I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

  • 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.

  • The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.

  • We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

  • Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!

  • For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

  • I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

    Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.
  • People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

  • 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.

  • This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.

    "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.
  • Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.

  • 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.

    Interview with Robert E. Johnson, Ebony, p. 78, September 1995.
  • I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

  • You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.

  • My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

  • I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair.

    Source: www.boxinginsider.com
  • 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 can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

  • Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

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Mike Tyson

  • Born: June 30, 1966
  • Occupation: Professional Boxer