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Confidence breeds success & success breeds confidence... Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.

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Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
Actor
Autobiographer
Boxer
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Professional Boxer
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Brooklyn
New York
Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
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My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
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I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.
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I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'
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I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
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When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that.
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I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
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No one who isn't an extremist can understand the mind of an extremist.
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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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I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.
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[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
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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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The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.
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I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
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I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
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Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.
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I could never stop drugs, I could never stop drinking, until I received my spiritual awakening.
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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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