Mike Tyson Quotes - Page 13

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

My objective is to destroy anybody over 200 pounds, in the ring or out.

If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.

I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your a-. You know?

One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said, 'Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser.' I had to tell him, 'No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history.'

Everybody has a gameplan until he gets hit

I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid?

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.

I haven't been with a woman in nine months.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should.

I like doing other things. I like getting high, hanging out with my kids. I like drinking. I have so many demons.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.

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.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in.

One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

Nothing is more humbling than getting your ass kicked.

He was crying in there, making woman gestures.

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven't lost that. I didn't lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven't lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.