“You never lose until you actually give up.”
“Greatness is give to us all. But only a select few can handle the ride.”
“Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy.”
“I’m the most brutal and ruthless conqueror there has ever been.”
“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.”
“I don’t dream anymore. All I do is manifest because they’re better than dreams and they come to reality quicker.”
“Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.”
“Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? This is what takes it to a whole different level.”
“You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself.”
“A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.”
“In order for me to achieve, I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words, I had to fake it until I make it.”
“Every win regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.”
“Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence.”
“Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.”
“I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and it I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”
“I’m successful because I’m valuable, not valuable because I’m successful.”
“In order to succeed greatly, you have to prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem.”
“At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as I get older, life is totally about losing everything.”
“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.”
“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.”
"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want." -Mike Tyson
"I shouldn't have done that, but I was irritated, tired, high and pissed off." -Mike Tyson
"Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it." -Mike Tyson
"Our discipline is our destiny." -Mike Tyson
"Without discipline you can't be a champion." -Mike Tyson
"I’m the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been." -Mike Tyson
"Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you." -Mike Tyson
"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose because I try to punch the bone into the brain." -Mike Tyson
"Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend." -Mike Tyson
"Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It’s the determination and the will in the guy." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson
"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
"Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they’ve gotten their ass kicked before." -Mike Tyson
"I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let’s go.'" -Mike Tyson
"Giving up is the easiest thing in the world. That's why so many people do it." -Mike Tyson
"We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals." -Mike Tyson
"Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson
"At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as I get older, life is totally about losing everything." -Mike Tyson
"You can’t be disturbed by anything. There's no emotion involved. You can't feel sorrow, you can't feel pity, there's nothing you feel. The job has to be done." -Mike Tyson
"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used." -Mike Tyson
"Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters." -Mike Tyson
"Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it." -Mike Tyson
In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can’t do both of them, you’ve got a problem." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson
"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone’s not true with themselves." -Mike Tyson
"Kindness and compassion are so powerful." -Mike Tyson
"The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world." -Mike Tyson
"I fight for perfection. -Mike Tyson
"You need to learn independence. You have to be independent. It builds character." -Mike Tyson
"When you take a risk doing what you love, that's exciting." -Mike Tyson
"You can change your mind or your life whenever you want to." -Mike Tyson
"Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave." -Mike Tyson
"The deeper you dig the deeper you become." -Mike Tyson
"Now that I'm older, I can see that everyone was my teacher." -Mike Tyson
"The fall is worth the climb." -Mike Tyson
"Without a test there is no testimony." -Mike Tyson
"Listening never gets you in trouble but talking can." -Mike Tyson
"Equality is in your heart. No can tell you they're better than you." -Mike Tyson
"Tearing yourself down is just as powerful as building yourself up." -Mike Tyson
"I only succeed when I help others succeed." -Mike Tyson
"For immortal status, enthusiasm makes it happen." -Mike Tyson
"If you have nothing good to say, don't say nothing at all." -Mike Tyson
"We have to evolve to be a better generation than those that came before us." -Mike Tyson
"I know a lot of great people. But most of the great people I met weren't good people. So I'd rather be a good person than a great person by far." -Mike Tyson
"Being tough doesn't work in the real world, outside of boxing. You gotta be smart." -Mike Tyson
"We have to evolve to be a better generation than those that came before us." -Mike Tyson
"Your fears are always worse than you think." -Mike Tyson
"God gives us fear to protect ourselves." -Mike Tyson
"Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend." -Mike Tyson
"Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth." -Mike Tyson
"I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them." -Mike Tyson
"I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian." -Mike Tyson
"Anger is my biggest enemy in life." -Mike Tyson
"Some students would make fun of me, but nobody messed with me." -Mike Tyson
"Life is just a beautiful process of dying. As soon as you are born the process begins." -Mike Tyson
. "I can't change myself. I’m Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the ghetto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well." -Mike Tyson
"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register." -Mike Tyson
"I ended up realizing that if anyone makes me mad, they own me. So, I try to not get mad anymore." -Mike Tyson
"Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don't learn to control it, it'll destroy you and everything around you." -Mike Tyson
"I don’t understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don’t bother no one." -Mike Tyson
“My power is discombobulatingly devastating. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.” -Mike Tyson
. "Never say negative things about yourself. The subconscious doesn't know if you're playing or not." -Mike Tyson
"I'm a strong exponent of gratitude. The universe gave me gratitude and I don't take that for granted." -Mike Tyson
"What are the most important words in the world? 'I AM.' Now the words you put behind that is what you are." -Mike Tyson
"I used to fight anybody my trainer put me in with because I was confident that I could beat any fighter in the world. Anybody could see that I was almost a master at evading punches coming at me." -Mike Tyson
"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
"Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I’m the best ever. I’m Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There’s never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson
"If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life." -Mike Tyson
"Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle." -Mike Tyson
"Whatever you want, especially when you're striving to be the best in the world at something, there'll always be disappointments, and you can't be emotionally tied to them, because they'll break your spirit." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson
"No one wants to get up at 4 and run when it's pitch-dark, but it has to be done. The only reason I do it so early is because I believe the other guy isn’t doing it and that gives me a little edge." -Mike Tyson
"We wanna believe that we’re different than the average guy that's working 9 to 5, that our thoughts are different than his, our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn’t. 'Cause we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had or he wasted it on something else." -Mike Tyson
"You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it." -Mike Tyson
"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." -Mike Tyson