Mike Tyson Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

After the fight I give you what I think you deserve; I give you what I want to give you. It's no more percentage. You get what I want to give.

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.

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.

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

Every now and then I kick your ass and stomp on you and put some kind of pain on you because you deserve to feel the pain that I feel.

Every shot was thrown with bad intentions.

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.

Everybody says they believe in God, but they don't do God's work. Everybody counteracts what God is really about.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.

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.

I ask this lady a lewd question because I'm in a lot of pain, too. I have some pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life.

I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get sex without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?

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

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

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

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 don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.

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 feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

I fought Evander. I was up for the fight physically, but I wasn't up psychologically.

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 haven't been with a woman in nine months.

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

I just want to be humble at all times.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

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

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

I learned from watching people who are free. I see the little things they do. I really learned from them.

I listen to everybody in power, even though they got a bad reputation.

I love to hit people. I love to.

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk any more, unless you want to, you know.

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. That's what I believe.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

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

I wish I did live with my child. I don't consider it right that I don't live with them. I have a war between my own mind and that situation.

I'll go back and take what the people owe me.

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.

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.

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

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

I'm crazy, but not crazy like that. I might want to have sex in a crazy place, but I don't want to kill or rape nobody or hurt nobody.

I'm going to gut you like a fish.

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'm just happy I'm not a phony.

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

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

I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

I'm on the Zoloft to keep me from killing y'all.

I'm partying every day in my mind and in my heart.

I'm sure at times you're a lady in the streets, and a whore on the sheets.

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

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

If I was in court, they wouldn't testify positively against me. They would think I'm a cad.

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

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.

It's no doubt I am going to win this fight, and I feel confident about winning this fight.

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.

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

Once we do what we can do, maybe one day other guys will follow. One day there is going to be a fighter who owns a bank, you know what I mean.

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.

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

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.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

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

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

Sometimes you guys have no pride, so no matter what I say, it doesn't affect you because you don't care about nothing but money.

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.

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

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

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person. Everyone's not true with themselves.

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.

The only thing they have respect for is my ability as an athlete.

The times are changing. There's a new rule, the Tyson rule.

There's no love. They don't know me as an individual, they know me for what I actually do. They pay to see me smash anybody.

These people want to crush me, they want me to cry, to beg on my knees. Evidently it is not in my nature to do that.

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.

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

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

When we were up in Harlem, we gave people and organizations donations of $25,000 and $50,000.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

Trivia

Mike Tyson filed for bankruptcy in New York on August 1 2003.

Mike Tyson's 48,000-square-foot mansion in Farmington, Connecticut was purchased by 50 Cent for $4.1 million on 21 Sept 2003.

Mike Tyson has a hobby of collecting pigeons, he has cared for pigeons throughout his life.

Mike Tyson has a small role in Scary Movie 4 as a female boxer. After winning, he proceeds to bite off the ears of staff and ring-side spectators.

Mike Tyson allegedly slapped around a parking attendant on April 9, 1989 in Los Angeles.

Mike Tyson compiled an impressive 24-3 amateur record.

In The Simpsons, boxer and convicted felon Drederick Tatum is clearly modelled on Mike Tyson.

Mike Tyson has a reach of 71".

Mike Tyson has a fight record of W-50 L-6 D-0 (44KO's).

After 16 months of marriage, Robin Givens divorced Mike Tyson on Valentine's Day, 1989.