Mike Tyson Quotes
By Alan Reiner – July 20, 2024
‘Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘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
‘As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.’ – Mike Tyson
‘Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘I don’t understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don’t bother no one.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.’ – Mike Tyson
‘My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.’ – Mike Tyson
‘Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I think I’ll take a bath in his blood.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I just want to conquer people and their souls.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I’m not Mother Teresa, but I’m not Charles Manson, either.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I just want to be humble at all times.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I’ll go back and take what the people owe me.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.’ – Mike Tyson
‘When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.’ – 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
‘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
‘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
‘I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.’ – 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
‘I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I’m a nut case, but that is what I believe.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.’ – Mike Tyson
‘Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I love to hit people. I love to.’ – Mike Tyson
‘When you see me smash somebody’s skull, you enjoy it.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘I’m going to gut you like a fish.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?’ – Mike Tyson
‘That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.’ – Mike Tyson
‘Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I’m just happy I’m not a phony.’ – Mike Tyson
‘You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.’ – Mike Tyson
‘The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.’ – Mike Tyson
‘One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.’ – 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.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I just look around and say, I’m a mess. I don’t know why I do things.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘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
‘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
‘I’ve lived places these guys can’t defecate in.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.’ – Mike Tyson
‘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
‘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
‘I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I know why they don’t like me because they want the money I have.’ – Mike Tyson
‘I think the average person thinks I’m a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.’ – Mike Tyson