"Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you."
"I like the hip writers: Fitzgerald, the guy who committed suicide, Hemingway, all those guys. Some of them were alcoholics and drug addicts but they had fun. They were real people. They formed the culture of American literature. Hemingway admired Tolstoy, Tolstoy admired Pushkin, and Mailer admired Hemingway. It all flows down. The greats are all connected. One day I'm gonna write a book myself. The first chapter will be about what a rough deal my momma got. She believed in you guys and your society."
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Source: Boxing: Tyson's complicated world. Interview with Paul Hayward, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 1, 2002.
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