Mike Tyson Quotes
"I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Muslim, Talk)
"It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Reading)
"I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe."
- Mike Tyson
"I've lived places these guys can't defecate in."
- Mike Tyson
"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: History)
"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Mother)
"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Life, Forbidden)
"I'm just happy I'm not a phony."
- Mike Tyson
"I'm in trouble because I'm normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don't like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Love, People, Trouble)
"I'm going to gut you like a fish."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Fish)
"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Day, Fight)
"When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Heart, Fight, Want, Will)
"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Body, Right, Talking)
"That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Fact, Respect)
"If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?"
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Love)
"I'm a historian, and that freaks me out."
- Mike Tyson
"You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Home, Negative, Party)
"You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Wife, Sleep)
"When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it."
- Mike Tyson
"When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Men)
"The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Character)
"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."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Inspiration, Goal, Sight, Thinking)
"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Money)
"That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Being, Fame, Fool, Fortune)
"Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Clothes, Dress, Old, Ski)
"Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Slavery)
"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Freedom, Nothing)
"Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Judgment, Now)
"People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People)
"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Books, Deep, Prison)
"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: God, Learning, Reason)
"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."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Society, People)
"I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Pigeons, Want)
"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Fight, Nonsense)
"I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Care)
"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Money, Time)
"I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Force)
"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Society)
"I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off."
- Mike Tyson
"As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Want)
"Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth."
- Mike Tyson
"Everybody's got plans... until they get hit."
- Mike Tyson
"Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Time, Revolution, Reading)
"Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Wife, Lies, Sense)
"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Dream, Clouds, Stars)
"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Books, Quiet, Talk)
"I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Money, People)
"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Money, Want)
"I'll go back and take what the people owe me."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People)
"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Heart, Fight, Malice, Man)
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Heart, Children, Want)
"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
(Related: Time, Beginning, End)
"I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Right)
"I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me."
- Mike Tyson
"I love to hit people. I love to."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Love, People)
"I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down."
- Mike Tyson
"I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Life, Day, Future)
"I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Woman)
"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Love, Fight, Want)
"I just want to conquer people and their souls."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: People, Want)
"I just want to be humble at all times."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Want)
"I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things."
- Mike Tyson
"I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Father, Brother, Day, Fight, Priorities, Want)
"I think I'll take a bath in his blood."
- Mike Tyson
(Related: Blood)