Mike Tyson Quotes About Boxing

Quotes about: Boxing

• Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Humble, Fighting

• As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Sports, Perseverance

• Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

  Mike Tyson

  Money, Failure, Boxing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• 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.'

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Feet, Boxing

• I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Perfect, Chaos

• The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Greatness, Boxing

• 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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Spiritual, Fighting

• 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

  Sports, Life And Love, Rip

  Mike Tyson, Larry Sloman (2017). “Iron Ambition: Lessons I've Learned from the Man Who Made Me a Champion”, p.413, Hachette UK

• I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls.

  Mike Tyson

  Fear, Motivation, People

• I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Believe, Boxing

  "Tyson: 'My whole life has been a waste'". Interview with Jon Saraceno, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 2, 2005.

• How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Skills, Boxing

• I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

  Mike Tyson

  Crazy, Boxing, Killing

• Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Mouths, Rats

• I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fear, Boxing

• I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Fear, Heart

  YouTube Chanel "sheltonn"/ "Mike Tyson" (Interview with Jim Gray), www.youtube.com. February 5, 2006.

• I'm going to gut you like a fish.

  Mike Tyson

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

• This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. Evander Holyfield butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Kids, Careers

  "Fight disintegrates after Tyson bites Holyfield" by Steve Carp, lasvegassun.com. June 28, 1997.

• My power is discombobulatingly devastating. It's ludricrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Motivational, Boxing, Realms

• The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Character, Boxing

  "Desperate Tyson Prepares For His Real Last Stand" by Wallace Matthews, www.nysun.com. June 23, 2004.

• I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fate, Blow

• I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Boxing, Body

• Boxing brought me money and fame, but it never brought me no happiness.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Fame, Money And Fame

• A man that is a friend to everyone is an enemy to himself.

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Boxing, Enemy

• I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Dumb Celebrity, Fades

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Helping, Referee

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