"You have to be a friend to..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
More by Mike Tyson
“Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.”
“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.”
“Anger is my biggest enemy in life.”
More on Self Love
“You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.”
“Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.”
“To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.”
More on Self Care
“There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.”
“I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.”
“Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.”