Mike Tyson Quotations

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

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

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

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.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

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.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I just want to be humble at all times.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I love to hit people. I love to.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

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.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I don't have the guts to stay in this sport anymore.

Shoot, I was desperate. I wanted to win.

She said, 'Sure, just give me a call,'

I look forward to coming back again. I've lost more than I've won in life, so, believe me, I'm pretty much understanding of the situation and I can deal with it. I can deal with adversity.

I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me? I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss why are you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even. They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

My objective is to be the ultimate professional.

I was drinking every day, fighting guys on the street, hanging out with bizarre women. But those days are gone. That guy is dead.

Standing in front of Chairman Mao's remains, I felt really insignificant. To have the chance to visit the memorial hall is a great honor for me.

When I'd get up in the morning, he'd make me breakfast. Now he's not around anymore. God. I'm doing to do well, but when I come down to it, who really cares? I like doing my job, but I'm not happy being victorious. I fight my heart out and give it my best, but when it's over, there's no Cus to tell me how I did, no mother to show my clippings to.

Even then I watched him, ... I knew he was a game champion and that he wasn't going to go out like a dog. He went out fighting. Even after that last knockdown he was willing to get up.

Now I'm here. Imagine if I'd kept screwing around those six years. I'd have been in the same place I was. In jail. Or dead. One of those.

You're smart too late and old too soon. I just got caught up in that suction cup. I feel like Rip Van Winkle right now.

Smart too late and old too soon, ... This is just my ending.

I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.

Emotion is more than just anger. When I am performing, I need emotion, but I need control, too. Emotion drives the best performance and is necessary, but it must be controlled. I believe Fedor [Emelianenko] does that. I do too. We may look different in how we do it, but we both do it.

Things can change. Life is all a learning process.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.

I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.

It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Fighting is a sport if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

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.

Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.

Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.

Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.

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

There's nothing like confidence.