Mike Tyson Sports Quotations

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

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.

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.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

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.

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.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

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

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

I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

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.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

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

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.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

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

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

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.

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.

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.

I earned that the strong will always beat the weak, but the smart will beat the strong. Boxing is a tough guy sport. But in the end, the tough guy gets to clean the streets and be a bodyguard. In the ring, the tough guy is going to get hurt; at the end of the day, he's going to talk funny. Only the smartest win. So, I know it's cliché, but power - real power - comes from knowledge, comes from smarts.

Fade into Bolivian, I guess.

Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

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

I fight for perfection

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.

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