Top 364 Quotes & Sayings by Mike Tyson - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

You need to learn independence. You have to be independent - it builds character.

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

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

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

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

I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.

There's nothing like confidence.

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

Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless.

You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.

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

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.

Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

You never lose until you actually give up.

To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.

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

Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.

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

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.

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.

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

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.

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.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

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

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.

I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. 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!

No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason i do it so early is because i believe the other guy isn't doing it and that gives me a little edge

Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

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

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

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.

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

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