Mike Tyson quotes and quotations

After the fight I give you what I think you deserve; I give you what I want to give you. It's no more percentage. You get what I want to give.
Mike Tyson

Every now and then I kick your ass and stomp on you and put some kind of pain on you because you deserve to feel the pain that I feel.
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I listen to everybody in power, even though they got a bad reputation.
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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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I love to hit people. I love to.
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Every shot was thrown with bad intentions.
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Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.
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Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
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I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.
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Everybody says they believe in God, but they don't do God's work. Everybody counteracts what God is really about.
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
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I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
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I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
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My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
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I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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My power is discombobulatingly devastating.
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I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
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Once we do what we can do, maybe one day other guys will follow. One day there is going to be a fighter who owns a bank, you know what I mean.
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These people want to crush me, they want me to cry, to beg on my knees. Evidently it is not in my nature to do that.
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
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Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
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People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
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Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
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I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
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Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
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I learned from watching people who are free. I see the little things they do. I really learned from them.
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That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
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Sometimes you guys have no pride, so no matter what I say, it doesn't affect you because you don't care about nothing but money.
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I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk any more, unless you want to, you know.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.
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I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
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That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person. Everyone's not true with themselves.
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When we were up in Harlem, we gave people and organizations donations of $25,000 and $50,000.
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The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
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The only thing they have respect for is my ability as an athlete.
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I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
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The times are changing. There's a new rule, the Tyson rule.
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There's no love. They don't know me as an individual, they know me for what I actually do. They pay to see me smash anybody.
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If I was in court, they wouldn't testify positively against me. They would think I'm a cad.
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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
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When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
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I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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