Top 100 Quotes About Mike Tyson
#1. Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson
#2. Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
#3. An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.
Jay Leno
#4. When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson
#5. I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
Mike Tyson
#6. 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.
Mike Tyson
#7. I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
Mike Tyson
#8. 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
#9. Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
Mike Tyson
#10. Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
Mike Tyson
#11. MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D'Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don't know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable.
Mike Tyson
#12. I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.
Mike Tyson
#13. Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me
Mike Tyson
#14. They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.
Mike Tyson
#15. 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
#16. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
Mike Tyson
#17. That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
Mike Tyson
#18. The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#19. I was an emotional manipulator of fighters ... You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.
Mike Tyson
#20. Being a champion opens lots of doors - I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
Mike Tyson
#21. Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Mike Tyson
#22. Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.
Mike Tyson
#23. I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.
Mike Tyson
#24. It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy
Mike Tyson
#26. 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.
Mike Tyson
#27. Boxing great Mike Tyson said "a happy fighter is a dangerous fighter." I think he's right.
Ronda Rousey
#28. I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
Mike Tyson
#29. You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.
Mike Tyson
#30. I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end
Mike Tyson
#31. My power is discombobulatingly devastating.
Mike Tyson
#32. That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
Mike Tyson
#33. I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
Mike Tyson
#34. I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad
Mike Tyson
#35. 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.
Mike Tyson
#36. 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.
Mike Tyson
#37. Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
Mike Tyson
#38. My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
Mike Tyson
#39. I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.
Mike Tyson
#40. If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?
Mike Tyson
#41. I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
Mike Tyson
#42. When it gets to the part in life where you're more afraid of what your wife is going to do to you than if you box, say, Mike Tyson, you've got to get a new profession. You don't get to be a family. I know why boxers never quit, some of them. They don't have wives.
George Foreman
#43. 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
#44. One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
Mike Tyson
#45. I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.
Mike Tyson
#46. Mike Tyson has been given ever penny he has coming.
Don King
#47. I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.
Mike Tyson
#48. It is incredibly difficult to adjust to such a little fighter. Mormeck is similar to Mike Tyson, he is just a little still faster.
Wladimir Klitschko
#49. I want your heart, I want to eat your children.
Mike Tyson
#50. There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
Mike Tyson
#51. I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.
Mike Tyson
#52. My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.
Mike Tyson
#53. I don't do anything. My life sucks.
Mike Tyson
#54. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
Mike Tyson
#55. I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
Mike Tyson
#56. When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.
Mike Tyson
#57. There are still a lot of Mike Tyson fans out there, and a lot of disbelievers in the first fight, and they want to see us fight again. I am the emperor. If he wants to fight, I am here. If he does not, I understand.
Lennox Lewis
#58. People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
Mike Tyson
#59. 'Iron' Mike Tyson is the last boxer who was truly embraced by the media. They followed him around. You didn't know what he was going to do next: bite you, cut you, fight you. When you think about it, that defines him - it was an exciting adventure.
George Foreman
#60. That's all they said was wrong with me?
Mike Tyson
#61. Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.
Mike Tyson
#62. There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.
Mike Tyson
#63. I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
Mike Tyson
#64. My career has been over since 1990.
Mike Tyson
#65. Mike Tyson, what can I say about you that hasn't already been the title of a Richard Pryor album?
Anthony Jeselnik
#66. A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
Mike Tyson
#67. Mike Tyson was one of the most terrific athletes I've ever met.
Don King
#68. Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.
Mike Tyson
#69. As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
Mike Tyson
#70. Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.
Mike Tyson
#71. I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
Mike Tyson
#72. I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.
Mike Tyson
#73. 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.
Mike Tyson
#74. The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.
Mike Tyson
#75. In order for me to achieve ... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.
Mike Tyson
#76. My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.
Mike Tyson
#77. When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
Mike Tyson
#78. I'm much more interested in Mike Tyson than I am in Morrissey.
Ian Astbury
#79. On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.
Mike Tyson
#80. Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
Mike Tyson
#81. There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.
Mike Tyson
#82. Everybody's got plans ... until they get hit.
Mike Tyson
#83. Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.
Mike Tyson
#84. I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire
Mike Tyson
#85. I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.
Mike Tyson
#86. I come from where Mike Tyson came from. I come from right across the street from Jay-Z. I didn't have a pond in my backyard. I saw violence.
Tracy Morgan
#87. Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
Mike Tyson
#88. Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
Mike Tyson
#89. And then he [Mike Tyson] will have only channel vision.
Frank Bruno
#90. Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.
Mike Tyson
#91. When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Mike Tyson
#92. 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
#93. Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage
Mike Tyson
#94. Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.
Mike Tyson
#95. It doesn't faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn't matter what anyone says about me. I'm a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I'm Tyson here.
Mike Tyson
#96. I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
Dennis Miller
#97. 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
#98. I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.
Mike Tyson
#99. 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?"
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