Mike Tyson Quotes

If you don’t have the spiritual warrior in you, you’ll never be a fighter.

I don't have the desire to hurt anyone anymore. I see a fly, but I don't have the nerve to get up and kill it.

Cus was a strong believer that in your mind you had to be the entity that you wanted to be. If you wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, you had to

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.

If you are not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

Tyson came in with a lot of excess baggage. The press has vilified him. Not a day goes by that the press doesn’t bring up his faults. This is not the Tyson I know. The Tyson I know is a sensitive, thoughtful, caring man. He may be terrifying in the ring, but that ends when he leaves the ring.

He was very vindictive and always out for revenge. He couldn’t live without enemies, so he created them.

I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

But, sir, please let me finish this round and go one more round. That’s what we normally do,” I pleaded. I wanted to impress Cus. I guess I had. When we got out of the ring, Cus’s first words to Bobby were, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.

Che Guevara is an incredible individual. He had so much, but sacrificed it all for the benefit of other people.

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.

God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation.

Confidence was everything. But in order to possess that confidence, you had to test yourself and put yourself on the line. It doesn’t come from osmosis, out of the air. It comes from consistently going over the visualization in your mind to help you develop the confidence that you want to possess.

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

"There are animals disguised as human beings out here, you are not sophisticated enough to decipher the two."
Cus D'Amato