Mike Tyson Quotes (90 Quotes)

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

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

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin Tyson's wife. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant 10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox He declined.

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

When I'd get up in the morning, he'd make me breakfast. Now he's not around anymore. God. I'm doing to do well, but when I come down to it, who really cares I like doing my job, but I'm not happy being victorious. I fight my heart out and give it my best, but when it's over, there's no Cus to tell me how I did, no mother to show my clippings to.

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

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

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

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

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

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

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

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

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 could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

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.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

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 don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I love to hit people. I love to.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

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.

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

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

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

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

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

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

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

I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life.

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.

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

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

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

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

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

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. So was Ray Robinson. Ray Leonard. They got a man in trouble and they threw everything they had at him. Bring him down.

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

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

I was drinking every day, fighting guys on the street, hanging out with bizarre women. But those days are gone. That guy is dead.

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

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

I look forward to coming back again. I've lost more than I've won in life, so, believe me, I'm pretty much understanding of the situation and I can deal with it. I can deal with adversity.

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.