"When I was young, I thought I..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
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.
More by Mike Tyson
“Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.”
“When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.”
“In order for me to achieve... I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it.”
More on Humility
“It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.”
“How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you have been heart-breaking rock. Once, for the sake of experiment, be earth!”
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.”