"I ain't the same person I was..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
More by Mike Tyson
“You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.”
“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 are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.”
More on Change
“A great idea goes through three stages on its way to acceptance: 1) it is dismissed as nonsense, 2) it is acknowledged as true, but insignificant, 3) finally, it is seen to be important, but not really anything new.”
“One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
“We're not the same people we were then. We've changed, we've grown.”
More on Identity
“I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something.”
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
“I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and that's everybody's wish... I try to be a role model for black kids, white kids, yellow kids, green kids. This is what I felt was good about my personality.”