"Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation...." - Quote by Mike Tyson

“Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.”

“[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.”

“Anger is my biggest enemy in life.”

“I might add how in the world can you say, or can anyone say, that it will dignify the American Negro to beg in or wade [?] in or plead in when the people in Hungary didn't beg in? They were freedom fighters. And they fought for their freedom.”

“People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.”

“You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.”

“For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.”

“Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation.”

“The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.”