"If my children will live a better life than I did by my getting brain damage, by my being brain dead, then let it be."
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Mike Tyson quotes (page 16 of 19)
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"I'll fight anybody my trainer puts me in with because I'm confident I can beat any fighter in the world. If anybody can see I'm almost a master at evading punches coming at me."
"I don't think boxing took more from me then I got in return. It gave me everything that I took from it. It was all fair."
"What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone."
"Things can change. Life is all a learning process."
"I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either."
"Don't be surprised if I behave like a savage. I am a savage"
"I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have."
"I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain."
"It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy"
"I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end"
"If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?"
"I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried."
"I can deal with adversity."
"I guess I'll fade off into bolivian"
"Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave."
"All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too."
"He was screaming like my wife."
"When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me."
"If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me."