Mike Tyson Quotations | Page 3

" This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?"

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know?

That's all they said was wrong with me?

I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain

My career has been over since 1990.

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.

For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

I want your heart, I want to eat your children.

I'm just happy I'm not a phoney.

Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!

You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.

I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.

I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

I live for the moment to hit people.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more

This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life

I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire

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

Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

I guess I'll fade off into bolivian

There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right.

For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

Every great general and warrior from the beginning of time was high.

I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

Nietzsche's my favorite. He's just insane.

You never lose until you actually give up.

I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters.

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.

Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit

You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

I haven't been with a woman in nine months.

I am not a role model.

You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done.

Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.

Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

Sarah Palin met the wombshifter! Old Sarah and the wombshifter.

March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society.

Ten years ago, if you asked me where I'd be now, I'd have said F-ing dead. But I'm not dead. I have an awesome life. And I'm just very grateful. That's the one thing I try to convey. Gratitude.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money

Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery

My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.

These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.

We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back.

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

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.

I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.

One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record-and it doesn't include my juvenile history.

Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

Fighters are never who they appear to be

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.