Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.
Mike Tyson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mike Tyson
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: June 30
Actor
Autobiographer
Boxer
Podcaster
Professional Boxer
Voice Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Michael Gerard Tyson
Iron Mike
Boxing
Brought
Fame
Happiness
Money
Never
More quotes by Mike Tyson
Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit.
Mike Tyson
Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
Mike Tyson
My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.
Mike Tyson
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.
Mike Tyson
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.
Mike Tyson
I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.
Mike Tyson
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Mike Tyson
Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in.
Mike Tyson
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
Mike Tyson
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.
Mike Tyson
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.
Mike Tyson
I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.
Mike Tyson
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.
Mike Tyson
I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.
Mike Tyson
Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
Mike Tyson
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.
Mike Tyson
Some people are faster than others I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.
Mike Tyson
I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.
Mike Tyson
[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.
Mike Tyson
People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?
Mike Tyson