Top 15 Mike Tyson Quotes

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

Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself.

In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land.

Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

You think you know the difference between a hero and a coward, Mike? Well, there is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.

Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.

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.

Your mind is not your friend, Mike. I hope you know that. You have to fight with your mind, control it, put it in its place. You have to control your emotions. Fatigue in the ring is ninety percent psychological. It’s just the excuse of a man who wants to quit.

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

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.