Top 100 Tyson's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Tyson dropped the two warriors he was about to tie into a knot and jogged after us. He jumped on the centaur's back.
'Dude!' the centaur groaned, almost buckling under Tyson's weight. 'Do the words "low-carb diet" mean anything to you?
Rick Riordan
#3. 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.
Mike Tyson
#4. Mike Tyson's a great boxer. The greatest boxer - but boxer. Not the best fighter.
Royce Gracie
#5. My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.'
Mayer Hawthorne
#6. Maori, Te'mutunga'ke'mai'o'te'rori'o'te'tangata
That uncontrollable laughter that causes milk to shoot through a Maori's nose when he sees a picture of Mike Tyson's face tattoo. Literally, 'What a fucking loser'.
Beryl Dov
#7. Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
Mike Tyson
#8. The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#9. Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#10. One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#11. If one evening you feel sad enough to cry, look up. Your tears will not fall and the starry night may bring joy to your soul.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#12. Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
#13. I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#15. Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#16. I've said a lot of stuff in the past, but not with any intentions to hurt anybody. It's all a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Tyson Fury
#17. You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.
Tyson Beckford
#18. nearly fourteen billion years ago, all the space and all the matter and all the energy of the known universe was contained in a volume less than one-trillionth the size of the period that ends this sentence. Conditions
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#19. I appreciate every team that wants me, and I take on every challenge.
Tyson Chandler
#20. You can't come away with this cosmic perspective thinking that you are better than others and want to fight. That's why you'll never have astrophysicists leading nations into war.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#22. The need to create a new taxonomy that isn't just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I'm sure of it, even if it's not tomorrow.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#23. The problem in society is not kids not knowing science. The problem is adults not knowing science. They outnumber kids 5 to 1, they wield power, they write legislation. When you have scientifically illiterate adults, you have undermined the very fabric of what makes a nation wealthy and strong.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#24. It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#25. When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
Mike Tyson
#26. When people believe a tale that conflicts with self-checkable evidence it tells me that people undervalue the role of evidence on formulating an internal belief system. Why this is so is not clear, but it enables many people to hold fast to ideas and notions based purely on supposition.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#27. At the end of the day, we're all brothers and sisters in God. What people do is none of my business.
Tyson Fury
#28. You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#29. Jesus ... said - long before his followers had established churches and a priesthood - 'I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.' This Way is the life of the Spirit. To follow it entails no necessity for places (all places are holy ground), no priesthood, since every man becomes a priest unto God ...
Esme Wynne-Tyson
#30. I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
Mike Tyson
#31. Everything I've set out to do, I've achieved, and all the praise goes to God.
Tyson Fury
#32. When Newton breached this philosophical barrier by rendering all motion comprehensible and predictable, some theologians criticized him for leaving nothing for the Creator to do.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#33. Ella, just stay here. Stay safe."
"Safe," Ella repeated. "Ella likes being safe. Safety in numbers. Safety deposit boxes. Ella will go with Tyson."
"What?" Percy said. "Oh ... fine, whatever. Just don't get hurt. And Mrs. O'Leary - "
"ROOOF."
"How do you feel about pulling a chariot?
Rick Riordan
#34. I'm tall with broad shoulders. And my waist is small. I'm into fashion, so I like the way clothes lay on me. I'm pretty much a normal person's size, just stretched out.
Tyson Chandler
#35. The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?
Tyson Chandler
#36. When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#37. Why would anyone expect Tyson to come out smarter? He went to prison for four years, not Princeton.
Lou Duva
#39. 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
#40. We are runaway slaves from our own past, and only by turning to face the hounds can we find our freedom beyond them.
Timothy B. Tyson
#41. Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#42. One of my great laments is that education today seems to have ... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#43. On the equator, where centrifugal forces are greatest, a 150-pound person will be a slender 149 pounds 14 ounces.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#45. I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
Mike Tyson
#46. 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
#47. We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#48. There are 7 billion people in the world, but there's only one heavyweight champion of the world, and that's me.
Tyson Fury
#49. I watched the Tyson-Holyfield fight with Stallone. I remember when Tyson bit him, Sly looked at me and said, 'I think he bit him'. I said, 'I think you're right, Rock.'
Stephen Lang
#50. Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#51. Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
Mike Tyson
#52. 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
#53. Space in general gave us GPS - that's not specifically NASA, but it's investments in space.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#54. Note, however, that you cannot simply add temperatures the way you can add volumes or weights. Two people in bed, each with body temperatures of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, do not normally create a 197.2 degree under-the-cover oven.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#55. The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don't need justification.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#56. When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn't wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#57. I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, "Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?"
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#58. 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
#59. For generations, Americans have expected something new and better in their lives with every passing day - something that will make life a little more fun to live and a little more enlightening to behold. Exploration accomplishes this naturally. All we need to do is wake up to this fact.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#61. The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.
Cicely Tyson
#62. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#63. 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
#64. Science is not just about seeing, it's about measuring, preferably with something that's not your own eyes, which are inextricably conjoined with the baggage of your brain. That baggage is more often than not a satchel of preconceived ideas, post-conceived notions, and outright bias.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#65. And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#66. Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do-to the benefit of us all.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#67. Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me
Mike Tyson
#68. He can talk?" "I talk," Tyson admitted. "You are pretty.
Rick Riordan
#69. They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.
Mike Tyson
#70. What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#71. I'm a little bit backward. I didn't really go to school.
Tyson Fury
#72. 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
#73. Wicked cool. Tyson had made the metal parts in the
Rick Riordan
#74. I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#75. These same oxygen atoms, normally found in pairs (O2), also combined in threes to form ozone (O3) in the upper atmosphere, which serves as a shield that protects Earth's surface from most of the Sun's molecule-hostile ultraviolet photons.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#77. I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#78. Tyson balled his fists and slammed them into the Bulls face. BAD COW!
Rick Riordan
#79. Let's say intelligence is your ability to compose poetry, symphonies, do art, math and science. Chimps can't do any of that, yet we share 99 percent DNA. Everything that we are, that distinguishes us from chimps, emerges from that one-percent difference.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#80. My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.
Tyson Gay
#81. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
Mike Tyson
#82. That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
Mike Tyson
#83. No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#84. Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#85. For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#86. The leptons most familiar to the non-physicist are the electron and perhaps the neutrino; and the most familiar quarks are . . . well, there are no familiar quarks.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#87. I've been in crisis situations, I've been down, I've been hurt, I've been behind on the scorecards, and I've had to pull that shot out to knock somebody out. I've been in all kinds of situations and still come out on top.
Tyson Fury
#88. Tyson, the fleece. Can you get it for me?'
'Which one?' Tyson said, looking around at the hundreds of sheep.
'In the tree!' I said. 'The gold one!'
'Oh. Pretty. Yes.
Rick Riordan
#89. Had Earth been much closer to the Sun, the oceans would have evaporated. Had Earth been much farther away, the oceans would have frozen. In either case, life as we know it would not have evolved.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#90. We must develop a better sense of responsibilty towards our total environment
Jon Wynne-Tyson
#91. If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans?
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#92. The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#94. I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#96. 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
#97. Science literacy is an important part of what it is to be an informed citizen of society.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#98. We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#100. 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
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