One day Cus came to me. “You know, Camille really wants you to do your chores. I could care less if you did, but you should do them because it will make you a better boxer.” “How’s taking out the trash going to make me a better boxer?” I scoffed. “Because doing something you hate to do like you love it is good conditioning for someone aspiring towards greatness.

— Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes

What kind of bird don’t fly? Jailbird! Jailbird!

— Mike Tyson

But, sir, please let me finish this round and go one more round. That’s what we normally do,” I pleaded. I wanted to impress Cus. I guess I had. When we got out of the ring, Cus’s first words to Bobby were, “That’s the heavyweight champion of the world.

— Mike Tyson

We sat down and Cus told me he couldn’t believe I was only thirteen years old. And then he told me what my future would be. He had seen me spar for not even six minutes, but he said it in a way that was like law. “You looked splendid,” he said. “You’re a great fighter.” It was compliment after compliment. “If you listen to me, I can make you the youngest heavyweight champion of all time.

— Mike Tyson

If you don’t have the spiritual warrior in you, you’ll never be a fighter.

— Mike Tyson

The moment the bell rings, and you come in contact with each other, suddenly your opponent seems like everybody else, because now your imagination has dissipated. The fight itself is the only reality that matters. You have to learn to impose your will and take control over that reality.

— Mike Tyson

Cus told me that to be a great fighter you had to get out of your head. He would have me sit down and he’d say, “Transcend. Focus. Relax until you see yourself looking at yourself. Tell me when you get there.

— Mike Tyson

Cus was a strong believer that in your mind you had to be the entity that you wanted to be. If you wanted to be heavyweight champion of the world, you had to.

— Mike Tyson

Later in that tape, the dispatcher kept telling Desiree that she was the victim, she was the victim, and then Desiree slipped something very interesting in.

— Mike Tyson

Hammerle began to ask her about the improbabilities that he saw about the case. “Look, you met Mike Tyson, and you saw him making all of these passes.

— Mike Tyson

Tyson came in with a lot of excess baggage. The press has vilified him. Not a day goes by that the press doesn’t bring up his faults. This is not the Tyson I know. The Tyson I know is a sensitive, thoughtful, caring man. He may be terrifying in the ring, but that ends when he leaves the ring.

— Mike Tyson

I was never taught how to handle my celebrity status. I don’t tell kids it’s right to be Mike Tyson. Parents serve as better role models.

— Mike Tyson

Don’t use that word ‘can’t.’ You can’t say ’can’t.

— Mike Tyson

Because doing something you hate to do like you love it is good conditioning for someone aspiring towards greatness.

— Mike Tyson

Damn, why couldn’t I have been with a nonconfrontational kind of white guy?

— Mike Tyson

Well, I know what I am, and that’s what counts more than anything else, because the people don’t know what I go through. They think I’m born this way. They don’t know what it took to get this way.

— Mike Tyson

If a person gets up after the fall, it’s not physics, but character.

— Mike Tyson

As long as I am breathing, your legacy will continue to live on. Our.

— Mike Tyson

People who are only interested in having fun cannot accomplish anything.” I thought I was stronger than people who were weak and partying.

— Mike Tyson

Everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth”.

— Mike Tyson

Be humble. For the world will force humbleness upon you.

— Mike Tyson
More Mike Tyson Quote >>
Privacy Policy   7.30ms  0.71MB