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

I'm happy because - I'm not doing anything deceitful, I think, to my family. I'm successful because I don't have to sleep with one of my friends' girlfriends or wife or something. That's why I'm successful, that's success to me. I'm not dead, I'm not in the gutter - that's success to me.

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.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

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.