All Quotes by 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.”
“You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.”
“I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”
“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.”
“I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.”
“God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.”
“I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.”
“The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.”
“I just want to conquer people and their souls.”
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
“I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.”
“When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.”
“I'm going to gut you like a fish.”
“Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.”
“I think I'll take a bath in his blood.”
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.”
“I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.”
“Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.”
“I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.”
“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'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.”
“I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.”
“I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.”
“You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.”
“I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.”
“One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.”
“I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.”
“As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.”
“Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.”
“Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.”
“I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”
“My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
“I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.”
“I just want to be humble at all times.”
“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.”
“I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.”
“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'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.”
“I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.”
“I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.”
“I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.”
“That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.”
“I'm just happy I'm not a phony.”
“I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”
“I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.”
“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.”
“I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.”
“I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.”
“Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.”
“I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.”
“You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.”
“When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.”
“I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.”
“I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”
“I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.”
“I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.”
“Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.”
“I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.”
“I'll go back and take what the people owe me.”
“Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.”
“I love to hit people. I love to.”
“I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.”
“Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.”
“Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her.”
“The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.”
“If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?”
“I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.”
“People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.”
“I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say.”
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.”
“God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.”
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
“I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.”
“Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter.”
“That shit is the real deal. Listen: I’m a black motherfucker from the poorest town in the country. I’ve been through a lot in life. And I know him. When I see him, he shakes my hand and respects my family. None of them—Barack, whoever—nobody else does that. They’re gonna be who they are and disregard me, my family. So I’m voting for him. If I can get 20,000 people or more to vote for him, I’m gonna do it.”
“People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?”
“"I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.”
“My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.”
“He was just splendid, a masterful boxer - I take my hat off to him”
“The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit.”
“I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”
“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth”