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I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
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Michael Gerard Tyson
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I'm the best fighter in the world. No one can beat me....My objective is to inflict as much pain as possible, to win and win spectacularly...Ever since I was 12 years old, I was groomed to be the heavyweight champion of the world. I've been prepared to handle the pressure, the dealing with the press, everything.
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People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?
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I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do
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I never wanted to do anything else but fight, when I was a kid. I never had any broader perspective of my own perspective. I didn't know anything about anything else. I just wanted to fight until I could fight no more, and then I wanted to own a bar and drink and tell war stories.
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I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.
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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 want your heart, I want to eat your children.
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I hate to cry and I hate to sound like sour grapes, but no one ever listens to me. No one ever hears what I have to say.
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I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.
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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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God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.
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The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
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I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.
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People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
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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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God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
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If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life.
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