Mike Tyson Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Humble, Fighting

• I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Life And Love, Fighting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Spiritual, Fighting

• 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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Life And Love, Rip

  Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman (2017). “Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion”, p.413, Hachette UK

• Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

  Mike Tyson

  Life, Fighting, Enemy

• 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.

  Mike Tyson

  Strong, Brother, Father

• I fight for perfection

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Motivational Sports, Fighting

• People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Mma, People

• 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

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Thinking, Guy

• There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Young

  Citizens Of Peace Magazine Interview, mag.citizensofhumanity.com. December 14, 2015.

• Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Determination, Fighting

• We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

  Mike Tyson

  Struggle, Fighting, Mma

• I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Fighting

• I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.

  Mike Tyson

  Sorry, Motivation, Fear

• 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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Heart, Fighting

  Interview with Robert E. Johnson, Ebony, p. 78, September 1995.

• I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Boxing, Ems

• It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Guy, Trying

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

• 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.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Mind, Important

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

• Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Winning, Long

  "Mike Tyson: 'You Have To Feel Comfortable Being Uncomfortable'". Interview with David J. Parnell, www.forbes.com. November 18, 2014.

• One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fighting, Guy

• I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Kids, Fighting

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

• Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.

  Mike Tyson

  Spiritual, Mean, Eye

• Even though I heard him say he doesn't believe, cuz' that's why from watching Ali gave me the great deal of confidence and deep-down inner belief to believe there's no man fighting that could beat me.

  Mike Tyson

  Believe, Fighting, Men

• I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Father, Fighting

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 23, 2009.

• Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

  Mike Tyson

  Fighting, Men, Mad

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