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Mike Tyson Quotes About Book

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.

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.

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

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.

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 Quotes About Love

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

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

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 love to hit people. I love to.

More Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

I just want to be humble at all times.

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

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

I'm just happy I'm not a phony.

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

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