Mike Tyson Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

  Mike Tyson

  Crush, Mother, Running

• When I'm on stage, I'm not me playing me. I'm somebody else doing me. I could never go on stage and be like, "Hey, I'm Mike Tyson. My mother and father was in the sex industry." That's the politically correct way to say it, but I would really say, "My mother and father were pimps and whores. This is my life." I could never do that as Mike Tyson. Because I'd feel sorry for myself. But if I could be objective about it and be somebody else, portraying Mike Tyson, saying this story, then it's easy sailing.

  Mike Tyson

  Mother, Sex, Sorry

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Mother, Boxing

  "The chips run out in Las Vegas" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 31, 2002.

• 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.

• 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.

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