Mike Tyson quotes - page 6

I love to hit people. I love to. (Mike Tyson)
I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
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Am I a born boxer? No-if I was, I'd be perfect.
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There's no one perfect. ... Jimmy Swaggart is a lascivious creature, Mike Tyson is lascivious - but we're not criminally, at least I'm not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate more than other people - it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get a blowjob without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?
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In a 1988 Sports Illustrated interview: "Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. Do you know what I do sometimes? Put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."
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My whole life has been a waste - I've been a failure.
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I'm not too interested in these swan songs I'm continuing to hear. I'm just Mike. I'm a peasant. I'm here to entertain the people. I'm no elite person. At one stage in my life, I had my little jewelry and all my little girlfriends and my big cars and things. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older life is totally about losing everything. As life goes on, we lose more than we acquire. I don't want the finest girl in the world anymore. I'm just trying to stay balanced, basically.
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Y'all guys can't define me or define my work as a father, i'm many things i'm many things you know, yeah i'm a convicted rapist, i'm a hell raiser, i'm a father, i'm a loving father, i'm, you know, a semi- good husband, you know what i mean? What? You know i'm just a man out here trying to enjoy my, you know I was born poor I ain't never had nothing I don't know how to act but the real thing is i'm just here to be me. I do'nt care about who anyone things at this stage in my life but yeah, i'm pretty much a tyrant titan. Yeahs thats who I am. (Mike Tyson)
None of my friends have any respect for me. ... No, most of these people thought of me like... some money....
Mike Tyson
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
Mike Tyson
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
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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.
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I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Mike Tyson
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
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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.
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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.
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I do what I want to do. (Mike Tyson)
I'm not going to tell you I am a good father. I have to contribute to the world. I have to teach [my children] how to contribute to the world. That's our whole existence – to contribute to the world and make it a better place in some way. In my life I contributed to make it a bad place.
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I'm not a good father. I'm a good man with my kids. I'm very generous with them. I'm very kind to them, but I am not a good father.
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Boxing is a lonely sport.
Mike Tyson
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.
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