Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.
Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody who helps you is not your friend.
Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy.
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.
I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.
Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.
I fight for perfection
People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.
We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight
I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.
People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.
It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.
I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well.
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
What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.
I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.
I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me.
On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say.
I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.
For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.
I never think of physical fighting. It's always spiritual. Fighting is spiritual.
Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.
All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too.
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
