"Most fighters are the most humble people..." - Quote by Mike Tyson
Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before.
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“You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.”
“I am not a role model.”
“If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.”
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“I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.”
“Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.”
“Humility is a virtue; timidity is an illness.”
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“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
“Sometimes with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn'd love; But now I think there is no unreturn'd love—the pay is certain, one way or another; (I loved a certain person ardently, and my love was not return'd; Yet out of that, I have written these songs.)”
“I did work in a strip club, but I didn't strip. I danced, and I became very popular.”