Mike Quotes

• It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Successful

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• I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Perfect, Chaos

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Clothes, Dresses

  Sports Illustrated, 1988.

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  As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Sports, Perseverance

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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.

  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

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• I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Boxing, Want

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• I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. 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!

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Fear, Heart

  YouTube Chanel "sheltonn"/ "Mike Tyson" (Interview with Jim Gray), www.youtube.com. February 5, 2006.

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• It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Motivation, Fear

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, Boxing

  "Tyson: 'My Whole Life Has Been a Waste'". usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 02, 2005.

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• These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Fear, Book

  "Boxing: Tyson's complicated world". Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.

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• I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, People

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• Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

  Mike Tyson

  Freedom, Real, Mma

  "Tyson 20 years down the line" by Gareth A Davies, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 22, 2006.

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Dream, Inspirational Sports, Stars

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• I just want to conquer people and their souls.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Crazy, People

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• I want your heart, I want to eat your children.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Heart, Want

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Believe, Cash

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fear, Boxing

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Rip, Lying

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• I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

  Mike Tyson

  Interviews

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• People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

  Mike Tyson

  Mistake, People, Boxing

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• When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

  Mike Tyson

  Jesus, Crazy, Men

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• They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Boxing, Boxers

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• One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

  Mike Tyson

  Morning, Men, Hands

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• Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivation, Disappointment, Fear

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