Mike Tyson Quotes

Guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I'd think I was someone special.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

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.

We live in a society where we basically live and strive on what people think about us. We’re more visual people so what we see is basically what we believe which is not necessarily true.

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.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

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.

March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.

Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it.

I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

I am not a role model.

I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you.

My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

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.

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.

You have to have a bunch of dimensions [of yourself]. You have to be able to adapt in this world. You can't be a nice guy living in a world of savages.

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

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

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

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.

This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?

These pigeons have been living with each other for 10 or 15 years, but when I throw feed down, they kill each other to get it, and it's the same with the fighters. We love and respect each other...but we need that money.

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.

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.

Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

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

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.