"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."
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"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"
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"Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used."
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"I want your heart, I want to eat your children."
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"What I've done in the past is history and what I'm gonna do in the future is a mystery"
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"I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex)."
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"I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right."
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"We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight"
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"Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important."
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"I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well."
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"I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average."
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"I don't know, man, I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."
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"Everybody in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter."
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"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."
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"Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't really mean anything. Cus was my backbone . . . . He did everything for my best interest . . . . We'd spend all our time together, talk about things that, later on, would come back to me. Like about character, and courage. Like the hero and the coward: that the hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while the coward runs. It's the same thing, fear, but it's what you do with it that matters."
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"I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight."
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"Not to be egotistical, but I don't think there is a man on this planet who can beat me"
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"I could have knocked him out in the 3rd round but I wanted to do it slowly, So he would remember this night for a long time."
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"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."
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"Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that."
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