Without struggle, there is no progress. There has to be struggle in your life. You have to grow in experience to control your ego. Cause, you know, an ego can be crushed, it can be killed, it can be smashed, but it comes back. It never dies. That's the thing about the ego: it never dies.
Mike TysonThe 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 TysonYou canโt be disturbed by anything. Thereโs no emotion involved. You canโt feel sorrow, you canโt feel pity, thereโs nothing you feel. The job has to be done.
Mike TysonWe live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. Weโre more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.
Mike TysonI hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.
Mike TysonOne morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.
Mike Tyson