Mike Tyson quotes:

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

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.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

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.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

Becoming a vegan gave me another opportunity to live a healthy life. I was so congested from all the drugs and bad cocaine, I could hardly breathe, [I had] high blood pressure, [was] almost dying [and had] arthritis. And once I became a vegan all that stuff diminished,

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.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

I just want to be humble at all times.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.

At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

Greatness is not guarding yourself from people. Greatness is being accepted by the people

Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on.

Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience.

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.

My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.

I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

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.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

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.

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

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.

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?"

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.

Me? I see an old, broke-ass black guy taking care of a bunch of kids, living life, taking them to school, and all that stuff, who's asking himself: What the hell is this? But I wouldn't give it up for the world because I love my wife. I never expected to have a life like this. No chaos... no confusion... no lawsuits... no violence... no going to jail...

Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle.

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight.

I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.

I don't do anything. My life sucks.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

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.

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else.

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.

I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see.

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.

In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally.

Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat.

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

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.

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, Let's go

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.

Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

He always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.

I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.

I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.

You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard.

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.

Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They're privileged and have things very easy. But I'm proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they're very popular.

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

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.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

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.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

" This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?"

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything

A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.

As human beings, nobody gets out of this world free. We all have to do some suffering before we leave.

Basically I don't care what people think of me. I'm not in the communications business.

Being a champion opens lots of doors"?I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.

Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.