Mike Tyson Quotes

“I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.”

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

“I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.”

“I want your heart, I want to eat your children.”

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

“I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.”

“What I want to do in life is just be a respectful man and just take care of my children and guide my family in the right direction. I'm not looking to be a chairperson, I'm not looking to be ambassador or anything in that capacity.”

“Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.”

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

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

“This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?”

“I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.”

“No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.”

“We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight”

“I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.”

“I just want to be humble at all times.”

“Every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area...I aimed for his ear...I wanted to bust his eardrum...Every punch had bad intentions...My record will last for immortality, It'll never be broken...I want to live forever...I refuse to lose...I would have to be carried out dead to lose...I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done.”

“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.”

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

“I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.”

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