Top 280 Mike Tyson Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I don’t want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn’t have to talk too much about myself.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

105. “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

106. “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

107. “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

108. “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

109. “Fade into Bolivian, I guess.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

113. “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

114. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

116. “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

117. “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

118. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

122. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

126. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

128. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

130. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

132. “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

133. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

137. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

139. “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

140. “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

141. “Hannibal rode elephants into cartilage.”

— Mike Tyson

142. “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

143. “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

144. “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

145. “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

146. “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

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

— Mike Tyson

148. “I can talk about humility, but I’m not humble. I mean, if you say, I’m humble, you’ve just contradicted yourself. But I’m trying to be, man, I’m trying so hard.”

— Mike Tyson

149. “Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before.”

— Mike Tyson

150. “I used to have lots of tigers. I had all sorts of exotic pets when I had some money. Before I was broke, I had everything. Pigeons and vultures, lions, tigers, and bears. I had it all.”

— Mike Tyson