Mike Tyson Quotes

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

“When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.”

“Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage”

“I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.”

“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.”

“What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.”

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

“The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.”

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

“I don't do anything. My life sucks.”

“I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad”

“Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail.”

“I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.”

“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”

“I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.”

“I know I have only myself to blame for all the problems I've had in my life.”

“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 I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.”

“My career has been over since 1990.”

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

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

“The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I'm just happy I'm not a phoney.”