Top 280 Mike Tyson Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I’m happy with that.”

— Mike Tyson

252. “One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.”

— Mike Tyson

253. “I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn’t getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.”

— Mike Tyson

254. “What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.”

— Mike Tyson

255. “The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.”

— Mike Tyson

256. “Sued King for $100 million, alleging the boxing promoter cheated him out of millions over more than a decade. It was settled out of court for $14 million.”

— Mike Tyson

257. “King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he’s black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked.”

— Mike Tyson

258. “The boxing’s the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that’s the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you’re sore and deep in your mind you say, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ I push that out of my mind.”

— Mike Tyson

259. “I had been reading Nietzsche and thought I was a Superman. I could barely spell my name but I was a Superman.”

— Mike Tyson

260. “If a person gets up after the fall, it’s not physics, but character.”

— Mike Tyson

261. “I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”

— Mike Tyson

262. “As long as I am breathing, your legacy will continue to live on. Our.”

— Mike Tyson

263. “Freedom is a very dangerous thing. We ration it very closely.”

— Mike Tyson

264. “If you don’t have the spiritual warrior in you, you’ll never be a fighter.”

— Mike Tyson

265. “You can’t give kids a fighting chance if you don’t give them a fighting mind.”

— Mike Tyson

266. “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.”

— Mike Tyson

267. “What kind of bird don’t fly? Jailbird! Jailbird!”

— Mike Tyson

268. “Be humble. For the world will force humbleness upon you.”

— Mike Tyson

269. “One day Cus came to me. “You know, Camille really wants you to do your chores. I could care less if you did, but you should do them because it will make you a better boxer.” “How’s taking out the trash going to make me a better boxer?” I scoffed. “Because doing something you hate to do like you love it is good conditioning for someone aspiring towards greatness.”

— Mike Tyson

270. “You think you know the difference between a hero and a coward, Mike? Well, there is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.”

— Mike Tyson

271. “He was very vindictive and always out for revenge. He couldn’t live without enemies, so he created them.”

— Mike Tyson

272. “Well, I know what I am, and that’s what counts more than anything else, because the people don’t know what I go through. They think I’m born this way. They don’t know what it took to get this way.”

— Mike Tyson

273. “Cus talked with such enthusiasm because enthusiasm is contagious and people will do things when they get enthused.”

— Mike Tyson

274. “Cus was a strong believer that in your mind you had to be the entity that you wanted to be. If you wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, you had to.”

— Mike Tyson

275. “Confidence was everything. But in order to possess that confidence, you had to test yourself and put yourself on the line. It doesn’t come from osmosis, out of the air. It comes from consistently going over the visualization in your mind to help you develop the confidence that you want to possess.”

— Mike Tyson

276. “The ones who lost and quit, well their demons will follow them to their grave because they had a chance to face them and they didn’t. You have to face your demons, Mike, or they will follow you to eternity.”

— Mike Tyson

277. “Don’t use that word ‘can’t.’ You can’t say ’can’t.”

— Mike Tyson

278. “But, sir, please let me finish this round and go one more round. That’s what we normally do,” I pleaded. I wanted to impress Cus. I guess I had. When we got out of the ring, Cus’s first words to Bobby were, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.”

— Mike Tyson

279. “Tyson came in with a lot of excess baggage. The press has vilified him. Not a day goes by that the press doesn’t bring up his faults. This is not the Tyson I know. The Tyson I know is a sensitive, thoughtful, caring man. He may be terrifying in the ring, but that ends when he leaves the ring.”

— Mike Tyson

280. “The moment the bell rings, and you come in contact with each other, suddenly your opponent seems like everybody else, because now your imagination has dissipated. The fight itself is the only reality that matters. You have to learn to impose your will and take control over that reality.”

— Mike Tyson

281. “What if I failed and lost? I had been in a million fights on the streets.”

— Mike Tyson

282. “Because doing something you hate to do like you love it is good conditioning for someone aspiring towards greatness.”

— Mike Tyson

283. “Damn, why couldn’t I have been with a nonconfrontational kind of white guy?”

— Mike Tyson

284. “People who are only interested in having fun cannot accomplish anything.” I thought I was stronger than people who were weak and partying.”

— Mike Tyson

285. “Later in that tape, the dispatcher kept telling Desiree that she was the victim, she was the victim, and then Desiree slipped something very interesting in.”

— Mike Tyson

286. “We sat down and Cus told me he couldn’t believe I was only thirteen years old. And then he told me what my future would be. He had seen me spar for not even six minutes, but he said it in a way that was like law. “You looked splendid,” he said. “You’re a great fighter.” It was compliment after compliment. “If you listen to me, I can make you the youngest heavyweight champion of all time.”

— Mike Tyson

287. “Hammerle began to ask her about the improbabilities that he saw about the case. “Look, you met Mike Tyson, and you saw him making all of these passes.”

— Mike Tyson

288. “I was never taught how to handle my celebrity status. I don’t tell kids it’s right to be Mike Tyson. Parents serve as better role models.”

— Mike Tyson

289. “Cus told me that to be a great fighter you had to get out of your head. He would have me sit down and he’d say, “Transcend. Focus. Relax until you see yourself looking at yourself. Tell me when you get there.”

— Mike Tyson