Mike Tyson Quotations

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

I'm not afraid to be a jerk or anything and laugh at myself anymore.

It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy.

Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

I don't want anyone to have to interview me. I wish I didn't have to talk too much about myself.

I'm not a good-looking guy. I don't care if my nose gets mashed.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training.

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.