Mike Tyson Quotes

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

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.

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 think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

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

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 never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.

Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.

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

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

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 sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

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

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.

Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes...", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

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.

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

I'm here to serve God and be of service. I'm nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.

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

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

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

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

Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

Sometimes during a relationship, a friendship, a friend's gonna have to prove they're your friend, and you're gonna have to prove you're their friend.

Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.

If you can't remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

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

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

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.

This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

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

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.

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

I am not a role model.

I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.

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

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

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

I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

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

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

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.

Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit

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

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