Mike Tyson
I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.Collection: Fighting
I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an endCollection: Fighting
I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.Collection: Pet
My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.Collection: Pounds
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.Collection: Motivation
If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.Collection: Fighting
When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.Collection: Humble
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.'Collection: Fear
I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?Collection: Boxing
I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?Collection: Sacrifice
I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.Collection: Suicide
I haven't been with a woman in nine months.Collection: Nine
I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.Collection: Boxing
I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.Collection: Drinking
Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.Collection: Humble
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.Collection: Mother
If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.Collection: Motivation
I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.Collection: Long
One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.Collection: Children
He was crying in there, making woman gestures.Collection: Boxing
Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.Collection: Ass
I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.Collection: Hurt
I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.Collection: Blessed
Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.Collection: Sports
I'm just happy I'm not a phoney.Collection: Boxing
If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.Collection: Jail
I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.Collection: Secret
I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.Collection: Pounds
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.Collection: Sports
Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.Collection: Determination
I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures likeCollection: Hurt
I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.Collection: Neanderthals
I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"Collection: Motivation
You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.Collection: Self
Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.Collection: Communication
I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.Collection: Boxing
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.Collection: Fighting
I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).Collection: Sex
I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.Collection: Kings
He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.Collection: Class
My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.Collection: Giving
Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.Collection: Boxing
I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.Collection: Trying
That's all they said was wrong with me?Collection: Boxing
My power is discombobulatingly devastating.Collection: Boxing
King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.Collection: Kings
My career has been over since 1990.Collection: Careers
Fade into Bolivian, I guess.Collection: Sports
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?Collection: Boxing