Mike Tyson
I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
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.
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.
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.
I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
I'm going to gut you like a fish.
The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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.
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.Collection: Sports
Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.Collection: Motivational
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.Collection: Order
Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.Collection: Life
You never lose until you actually give up.Collection: Giving Up
Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.Collection: Crush
A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.Collection: Men
Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.Collection: People
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.Collection: Losing Everything
I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbatingCollection: Garden
You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.Collection: Nice
If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.Collection: Life
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.Collection: Spiritual
Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.Collection: Inspirational
Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.Collection: Mma
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.Collection: Errors
Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.Collection: Weed
Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.Collection: May
Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.Collection: Struggle
I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'Collection: Motivational
What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mysteryCollection: Past
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.Collection: Boxing
No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.Collection: Mind
I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.Collection: Bullying
There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.Collection: Hurt
He was screaming like my wife.Collection: Crazy
All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.Collection: Jesus
I can deal with adversity.Collection: Adversity
I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.Collection: Men
It's just good that Detroit is coming back. I'm so happy it's coming back because it needs to come back. When I do my trips around the world, and I can be anywhere, but I always see somebody from Detroit or Chicago. Those guys are world travelers.Collection: Guy
When I go to Europe or South America, they laugh at things that are totally different than what Americans would laugh at. It's just so crazy how we're so different in personalities with other people.Collection: Crazy
I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.Collection: Husband
I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.Collection: War
Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.Collection: Reality