You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, ’cause if you’re not a friend to yourself, you’re an enemy to yourself and if someone’s a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn’t.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It’s all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
People love you when you’re successful, but if you’re not, who really cares about you?
I’m on the Zoloft to keep from killing y’all.
There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I’d changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I’d go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.
We all have to control our feelings. That’s the thing that separates us from animals.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
I’m addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
Things can change. Life is all a learning process.
Sometimes, the people we invest the most time in disappoint us the most.
You stand your ground and you perform your art. That’s what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
I fight for perfection.
My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It’s kind of a drug, a rush.
There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.
Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.
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.’
It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here.
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.
I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I’m the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That’s what made my knockouts always seem spectacular.