Mike Tyson Quotes

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

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

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

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.

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

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

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.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

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

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

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

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

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

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

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

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

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

I love to hit people. I love to.

I just want to be humble at all times.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

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.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.

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.

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

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

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!

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

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

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

Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

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

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

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.

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.

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

Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me

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.

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 don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.

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.

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

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 guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.