Top 280 Mike Tyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

102. “We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.”

— Mike Tyson

103. “My power is discombobulatingly devastating.”

— Mike Tyson

104. “I don’t want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn’t have to talk too much about myself.”

— Mike Tyson

105. “I don’t want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I’d rather be forgotten by everybody else.”

— Mike Tyson

106. “I love to hit people. I love to.”

— Mike Tyson

107. “If you can’t remember the small things, how are you going to remember the big things? The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.”

— Mike Tyson

108. “Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.”

— Mike Tyson

109. “Your mind is not your friend, Mike. I hope you know that. You have to fight with your mind, control it, put it in its place. You have to control your emotions. Fatigue in the ring is ninety percent psychological. It’s just the excuse of a man who wants to quit.”

— Mike Tyson

110. “When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them – that was frightening to me.”

— Mike Tyson

111. “Fade into Bolivian, I guess.”

— Mike Tyson

112. “If you’re a professional, you’ll make it work. you can be like, ‘I’m not going to do that, I’m going to do it where I’m satisfied.’ But I’m very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.”

— Mike Tyson

113. “Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth”.”

— Mike Tyson

114. “I’m not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.”

— Mike Tyson

115. “I don’t understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don’t bother no one.”

— Mike Tyson

116. “If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be.”

— Mike Tyson

117. “I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.”

— Mike Tyson

118. “I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.”

— Mike Tyson

119. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

120. “People say ‘Poor guy.’ That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. ‘Poor guy,’ like I’m some victim. There’s nothing poor about me.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

122. “I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad.”

— Mike Tyson

123. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

124. “I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.”

— Mike Tyson

125. “God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.”

— Mike Tyson

126. “You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.”

— Mike Tyson

127. “We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.”

— Mike Tyson

128. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

129. “That’s all they said was wrong with me?”

— Mike Tyson

130. “I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.”

— Mike Tyson

131. “I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn’t gonna be denied.”

— Mike Tyson

132. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

133. “I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.”

— Mike Tyson

134. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

135. “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

137. “It’s the emotional punches that you can’t see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart – your moral fiber.”

— Mike Tyson

138. “Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

140. “My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It’s kind of a drug, a rush.”

— Mike Tyson

141. “Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.”

— Mike Tyson

142. “I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I’am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.”

— Mike Tyson

143. “I don’t care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it’ll never work. That’s why she’s your loved one, because it’s the love of one. Togetherness, you are one.”

— Mike Tyson

144. “Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage.”

— Mike Tyson

145. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

146. “It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.”

— Mike Tyson

147. “I didn’t know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

149. “I can’t change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I’m a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.”

— Mike Tyson

150. “You think the speed of your fingers can match the strength of my fists?”

— Mike Tyson