A Quote by Mike Tyson

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse. — © Mike Tyson
They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

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People are really surprised when they meet me that I'm a recluse. People think I'm very gregarious and outgoing - and I am - I'm thinking about writing a book about it called 'The Gregarious Recluse.' How the more that you put me out there in front of audiences, the more that when I have down time I have to disappear.
I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.
Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.'
Me, I walk along and feel quietly defensive, a recluse in the Land of We. That's quite the loaded word, 'we.
I'm kind of a recluse.
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.
When you are a public personality, you can't afford to be a recluse.
I'm kind of a recluse when it comes to going outside.
I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.
Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
I'm happy to feed the illusion that I'm a lazy recluse.
I wasn't a nerd or a recluse, but I didn't grow up too fast.
Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .
I'm not like a total recluse who lives in the woods or anything.
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