Mike Tyson Quotes

“Discipline – doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it.”

“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.”

“Everyone has a plan ’til they get punched in the face.”

“He was screaming like my wife. (on Tyrell Biggs)”

“I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.”

“I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I’ll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.”

“I’m not Mother Teresa, but I’m not Charles Manson, either.”

“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.”

“My problem is that I always took myself too damn seriously and that got me in a lot of trouble.”

“People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?”

“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.”

“These books ain’t window dressing. I think Machiavelli’s the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin’ ass.”

“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.”

“Y’all guys know what I do… I put people in body bags.”

“You’re smart too late and old too soon.”

“Life is all about evolution. Being a better person than you are when you started.”

“Our discipline is our destiny.”

“Without a test there is no testimony.”

“You are what you say you are.”