Boxing Quotes - Page 33

• He didn't have no respect as a professional fighter should, no class. I was going to make him pay with his health for everything he said... I wanted to do it very slowly. I wanted him to remember this for a long time.

  Mike Tyson

  Class, Long, Pay

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• I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain.

  Mike Tyson

  Pain, Guy, Want

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

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• I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time.

  Mike Tyson

  Night, Long, Remember

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• I'm just happy I'm not a phoney.

  Mike Tyson

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

  Mike Tyson

  Wipe, Want, Pounds

  "Tyson reflects on sex, drugs, spirituality". Sports Illustrated Interview, www.si.com. July 28, 2010.

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• This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?

  Mike Tyson

  Real, Kids, Thinking

  "A misty-eyed Mike Tyson hankers after the bad old days" by Marina Hyde, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2010.

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• Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Guy, Want

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• That's all they said was wrong with me?

  Mike Tyson

  Said, They Said, Mike

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

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Body, Gestures

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• I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad

  Mike Tyson

  Men, Want, Weapons

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• I've been a prima-dona. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men - in the street and off.

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Jobs, Crazy

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

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• [Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything.

  Mike Tyson

  Hurt, Guy, Pissed Off

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

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• It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, This Guy

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• Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage

  Mike Tyson

  Savages, Behave, Ifs

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

  Mike Tyson

  Drug, Trying, Killing

  "Tyson can't beat Father Time" by Chuck Johnson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 12, 2005.

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• My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

  Mike Tyson

  House, Guy, Tragic

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

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• I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.

  Mike Tyson

  Kings, Empires, Barbarians

  "Tyson reflects on life as the 'baddest man on the planet'" by Anushka Asthana, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2008.

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• I'm just a sucker even talking to you guys. I should be ready to rip your heads off your necks. But it's just not the right thing to do

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Talking, Guy

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• This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.

  Mike Tyson

  Angel, Men, Who I Am

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

  Mike Tyson

  Guy, Brain, Trying

  Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust" by Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• If you look at the world the same way when you're 50 that you did when you were 20, then you wasted 30 years.

  Muhammad Ali

  Years, Looks, World

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• I'm gonna make a ton of money on the rematch, but that decision was horrible.

  Bob Arum

  Decision, Rematches, Horrible

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• They say I don't fight guys unless they're on a respirator. That's incorrect. They have to be at least 3 days off a respirator.

  George Foreman

  Fighting, Guy, Days Off

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• You got 3 things going against you: you're good, you're left-handed, and you're black

  Joe Frazier

  Black, Left Handed, Left

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• Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

  Joe Frazier

  Fighting, Streets

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