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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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I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
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My career has been over since 1990.
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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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My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it.
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I don't have to be that gentleman [baddest man on the planet] anymore. Now I have to be this guy. And in order to be this guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona.
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You have to compete in life because if you don't have no competition - no competition, no spirit, you know, you'll fall under the slightest struggle.
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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.
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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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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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My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
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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.
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One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
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I may have smoked too much weed, but I wasn't taking drugs or anything.
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Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.
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You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
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People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.
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I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.
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Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.
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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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