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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
Actor
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Boxer
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Professional Boxer
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
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You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself.
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I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.
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I haven't been with a woman in nine months.
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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.
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If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.
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He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.
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I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.
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Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
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The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.
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Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.
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Being a champion opens lots of doors—I'd like to get a real estate license, maybe sell insurance.
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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.
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I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.
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I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
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I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
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