Top 280 Mike Tyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

202. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

203. “I think the average person thinks I’m a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.”

— Mike Tyson

204. “It’s unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you’ve got to go and try to dismantle this guy.”

— Mike Tyson

205. “Not to be egotistical, but I don’t think there is a man on this planet who can beat me.”

— Mike Tyson

206. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

207. “This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.”

— Mike Tyson

208. “I’m not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I’m not a Democrat, either. It’s just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.”

— Mike Tyson

209. “I haven’t been with a woman in nine months.”

— Mike Tyson

210. “The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything’s a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can’t get – exclusivity.”

— Mike Tyson

211. “My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody’s anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I’m going to give them, I know when I’m going to give it to them, I know when they want it.”

— Mike Tyson

212. “Most writers, in my opinion, are dysfunctional derelicts.”

— Mike Tyson

213. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

214. “That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.”

— Mike Tyson

215. “I’am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit ’em good, the fight is close to an end.”

— Mike Tyson

216. “I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

218. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

219. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

221. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

223. “Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking.”

— Mike Tyson

224. “I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I’ll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.”

— Mike Tyson

225. “I didn’t come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, “You’d better fight.” My mother wouldn’t let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

— Mike Tyson

226. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

227. “I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.”

— Mike Tyson

228. “Five heads are definitely better than one when they’re thinking in the same perspective. I think that you really need to have people that you trust. And for me, trust comes from that synchronizing, that same-mindedness.”

— Mike Tyson

229. “For what I get paid to get into the ring, I owe it to my fans to uphold the institution of sportsmanship.”

— Mike Tyson

230. “Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.”

— Mike Tyson

231. “When you see me smash somebody’s skull, you enjoy it.”

— Mike Tyson

232. “We’re all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors.”

— Mike Tyson

233. “I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it’s hard to say it defined my career.”

— Mike Tyson

234. “I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”

— Mike Tyson

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

— Mike Tyson

236. “There’s no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That’s why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.”

— Mike Tyson

237. “My career has been over since 1990.”

— Mike Tyson

238. “People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.”

— Mike Tyson

239. “I’m a nut case, but that is what I believe.”

— Mike Tyson

240. “I’m just happy I’m not a phoney.”

— Mike Tyson

241. “When you’re a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher.”

— Mike Tyson

242. “People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.”

— Mike Tyson

243. “My life’s not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?”

— Mike Tyson

244. “I live for the moment to hit people.”

— Mike Tyson

245. “Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.”

— Mike Tyson

246. “I’m just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it’s just not the right thing to do.”

— Mike Tyson

247. “Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I’d think I was someone special.”

— Mike Tyson

248. “I know why they don’t like me because they want the money I have.”

— Mike Tyson

249. “My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.”

— Mike Tyson

250. “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.”

— Mike Tyson