Golpe Quotes

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

Well, I know what I am, and that’s what counts more than anything else, because the people don’t know what I go through. They think I’m born this way. They don’t know what it took to get this way.

The boxing’s the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that’s the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you’re sore and deep in your mind you say, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ I push that out of my mind.

To a reporter in 2002: "It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."

He was just splendid, a masterful boxer - I take my hat off to him

"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."

Be humble. For the world will force humbleness upon you.

Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.

My career has been over since 1990.

In a 2005 post-fight interview Tyson described boxing as "the hurt business."

"People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me."

I wish one of you guys had children so I could kick them in their fuckin' head or stomp on their testicles so you could feel my pain, because that's the pain I have waking up every day.

"I’m just trying to change my life because I’m not above killing any drug dealer for money."

I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.