Top 280 Mike Tyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There’s no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don’t want to close the door on it either.”

— Mike Tyson

52. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

53. “I’m here to serve God and be of service. I’m nothing; everything out here is a lot bigger than me.”

— Mike Tyson

54. “The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.”

— Mike Tyson

55. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

56. “I just look around and say, I’m a mess. I don’t know why I do things.”

— Mike Tyson

57. “There’s nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

59. “My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”

— Mike Tyson

60. “I’m trying to figure things out in the world. No one knows what this life thing is all about – there’s no manual. Just trying to figure it out.”

— Mike Tyson

61. “It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.”

— Mike Tyson

62. “Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.”

— Mike Tyson

63. “I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off.”

— Mike Tyson

64. “They called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”

— Mike Tyson

65. “I’m a man. I lived it and I’m not afraid to die but when I die I’m going to paradise and I’m not worried.”

— Mike Tyson

66. “I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.”

— Mike Tyson

67. “Man is not meant to be humble, he’s meant to be humbled.”

— Mike Tyson

68. “I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I’m doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.”

— Mike Tyson

69. “Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.”

— Mike Tyson

70. “There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I’d changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I’d go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.”

— Mike Tyson

71. “I’ve lived places these guys can’t defecate in.”

— Mike Tyson

72. “I think I’ll take a bath in his blood.”

— Mike Tyson

73. “Lennox Lewis, I’m coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!”

— Mike Tyson

74. “Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That’s important.”

— Mike Tyson

75. “I try my best to learn from other people’s mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.”

— Mike Tyson

76. “I’ll go back and take what the people owe me.”

— Mike Tyson

77. “I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn’t taking drugs or anything.”

— Mike Tyson

78. “They say I can’t lose. I say you can’t win!”

— Mike Tyson

79. “I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.”

— Mike Tyson

80. “I’m going to gut you like a fish.”

— Mike Tyson

81. “Being a champion opens lots of doors – I’d like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.”

— Mike Tyson

82. “Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.”

— Mike Tyson

83. “Fighters are never who they appear to be.”

— Mike Tyson

84. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

85. “People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?”

— Mike Tyson

86. “Guess I’m going to fade into Bolivian.”

— Mike Tyson

87. “When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap – people shouldn’t read that stuff.”

— Mike Tyson

88. “Fighting is a sport if you’re not humble it’s going to bring humbleness to you.”

— Mike Tyson

89. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

90. “He was crying in there, making woman gestures.”

— Mike Tyson

91. “You have to compete in life because if you don’t have no competition – no competition, no spirit, you know, you’ll fall under the slightest struggle...”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

93. “If he’s not dead, it doesn’t count.”

— Mike Tyson

94. “There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.”

— Mike Tyson

95. “I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.”

— Mike Tyson

96. “If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don’t know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don’t know how hard Mike Tyson’s punch is. I don’t know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.”

— Mike Tyson

97. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

100. “Treat the world the way you want to be treated.”

— Mike Tyson