Mike Tyson Quotes

Damn, why couldn’t I have been with a nonconfrontational kind of white guy?

Sometimes I get in my head and I think I am somebody, and I am easily offended. When I know I am nobody, I can never be offended.

I know that good Muslims didn't smoke weed or snort coke or drink champagne but I was going through an awful lot of shit. I'm sure Allah knew that my shit was just overwhelming and that I wasn't strong enough then to deal with it

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.

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.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but doing it like you love it.

I came home one day and there was a white baby in the house. What the fuck is this shit? I thought.

People who are only interested in having fun cannot accomplish anything.” I thought I was stronger than people who were weak and partying.

Cus told me that to be a great fighter you had to get out of your head. He would have me sit down and he’d say, “Transcend. Focus. Relax until you see yourself looking at yourself. Tell me when you get there.

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

Later in that tape, the dispatcher kept telling Desiree that she was the victim, she was the victim, and then Desiree slipped something very interesting in.

Sometimes I’d give my mother a hundred bucks and she wouldn’t pay me back. She didn’t respect me like that. I’d say, “You owe me some money, Ma.” And she’d just say, “You owe me your life, boy. I’m not paying you back.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Everybody has a plan till they get hit in the mouth. (P.s.) I think this extends beyond boxing as well.

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