Mike Tyson Quotes

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.

I fight for perfection

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

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

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

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

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

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

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

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.

I'm a vegan. I lost 150 pounds because of being a vegan.

Fighters are never who they appear to be

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

I'm trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about - there's no manual. Just trying to figure it out.

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

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

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

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

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them.

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

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.

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

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

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

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

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 don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.

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

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

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