Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
— Mike Tyson
You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.
I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
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.
I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
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.
I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
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.
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.
I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
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.
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
I'll go back and take what the people owe me.
I just want to conquer people and their souls.
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
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.
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.
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.
You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
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 just want to be humble at all times.
I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
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.
Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
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.
I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
I'm going to gut you like a fish.
One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.
Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
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.
I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
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.
I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.
I'm just happy I'm not a phony.
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.
I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
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.
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.
