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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
Actor
Autobiographer
Boxer
Podcaster
Professional Boxer
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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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.
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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.
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Fear and the thought of failure . . . But we don't really know what fear is. Fear is something that we create in our own minds. Fear could be like fire. You can use it to heat you up, keep you warm, cook your food. There are so many things you can use it for. But if you allow it to go out of control, it will destroy you and everything around you.
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A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.
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I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
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I want your heart, I want to eat your children.
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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?
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At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
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Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.
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I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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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.
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I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
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Anger is my biggest enemy in life.
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It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber.
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I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say, I'm humble, you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.
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Common sense is so very simple but very difficult to grasp.
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