Mike Tyson Quotes



      “Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.”
- Mike Tyson


      “Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
- Mike Tyson


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

       “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

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

      “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 don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”
- Mike Tyson


       “As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.”
- Mike Tyson

       “Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.”
- Mike Tyson


       “I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.”
- Mike Tyson

      “I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”
- Mike Tyson


       “I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.”
- 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 want to be humble at all times.”
- 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

        “I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.”
- Mike Tyson


       “My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
- 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 just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.”
- Mike Tyson


       “You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.”
- Mike Tyson 

        “I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.”
- Mike Tyson


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

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


       “People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.”
- Mike Tyson


       “I'm just happy I'm not a phony.”
- Mike Tyson

        “I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.”
- 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 know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.”
- Mike Tyson


       “I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.”
- Mike Tyson


       “I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”
- Mike Tyson


       “I'm going to gut you like a fish.”
- Mike Tyson


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

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