Mike Tyson Quotes

American boxer and media personality (born 1966)

"Iron" Mike Tyson (born June 30, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York) is a former American heavyweight boxing champion.

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Alternative Names: Michael Tyson • Iron Mike Tyson • Malik Abdul Aziz • Malik Abdul Azeez • The Baddest Man on the Planet • Baddest Man on the Planet • M. Tyson • M.Tyson • Mike G. Tyson • Michael Gerard Tyson • Iron Mike

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

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

Reported by Joyce Carol Oates in 1986 (published in 1987): "'It's a lonely sport,' Mike Tyson, who is surrounded by people who love him, says."

"I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it."

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."

"Am I a born boxer? No—if I was, I'd be perfect."

"Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance."

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

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

"I’m too stigmatized in this country, I want to do something that will have a tangible effect on people. I live in a world where I’m not too media-friendly, I would never be successful in this country."

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.

I couldn't even spell fucking Adidas. But I knew how they made me feel.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

While Im in the Dressin room five minutes befoar I come out my glubs are lased up im breakin my glubs down im pushin the leathah in the back of the glub im breakin the middle of the glub so my knuckle can piers through the leatha i can feel my knuckle piersin against the tight leatha glub of the evalast boxin glub wen i come out i have supreme confidens but im scared to def im totally afraid im afraid of losin im afraid of bein humiliated but im totally confident the closa i get to the ring the more confiden i am