Mike Tyson citáty

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„Už viac nechcem nikomu ublížiť. Vidím muchu, ale nemám nervy vstať a zabiť ju.“

„Snažím sa zmeniť svoj život, pretože nechcem zabiť žiadneho obchodníka s drogami za peniaze.“

„Keď som bol vo väzení, bol som zahrabaný do všetkých tých hlbokých kníh. Do Tolstojových kecov. Ľudia by také nemali čítať.“

„Každý má plány, až kým ho nezasiahnu.“

„Robím, čo chcem.“

„Nie som výrečný ani distingvovaný. Vy, chlapci, mi ani nedovolíte, aby som takým bol, takže len do toho.“

„Celý môj život bol jedna veľká strata - zlyhal som.“

„Musím snívať a siahať po hviezdach. A ak miniem hviezdu, chytím hrsť mrakov.“

„Každý, kto je v boxe, pravdepodobne skončí dobre, až na zápasníka.“

„Keď som mal peniaze, bol som zviera. Bol som tak agresívny. Prehral som v každej oblasti.“

„Môžete byť dobrým príkladom toho, že nemusíte nikomu ublížiť ani byť agresívny k tomu, aby ste presadili svoj názor.“

„Nevedel som byť iný. Cítil som sa ako jeden z tých barbarských kráľov, ktorý práve prichádza dobyť Rímsku ríšu.“

„Či som rodený boxér? Nie - ak by som bol, bol by som dokonalý.“

„To, že som šampiónom otvára veľa dverí - chcel by som získať licenciu na predaj nehnuteľností alebo možno predávať poistenia.“

„Stratil som svoju dušu ako ľudská bytosť. Stratil som sebaúctu. Nie som milý človek, takže nie je ťažké ma nenávidieť.“

„Veľkosť neznamená vedieť sa ubrániť pred ľuďmi. Veľkosť je, keď ťa ľudia akceptujú.“

„Je to veľmi plytký svet, do ktorého som zapojený a už ho nemôžem vystáť.“

„Nebuďte prekvapení, ak sa správam ako divoch. Som divoch.“

„Ľudia ťa milujú, keď si úspešný. Ale ak nie si, koho skutočne zaujímaš?“

„Múdrym sa stanete príliš neskoro a starým až príliš skoro.“

„Som závislý na dokonalosti. Problém s mojím životom je, že som bol vždy závislý aj na chaose. Dokonalom chaose.“

„Ak ma zatknú, aspoň budem mať miesto na spanie.“

„Moja kariéra skončila už v roku 1990.“

„Každá strela bola spôsobená zlými úmyslami.“

„Mojím hlavným cieľom je byť profesionálny, ale zabiť ho.“

„Mojím zámerom nebolo fascinovať svet mojou osobnosťou.“

“1988: "I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls."”

“I'm not a good father. I'm a good man with my kids. I'm very generous with them. I'm very kind to them, but I am not a good father.”

“At 20, reflecting on Cus D'Amato: "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.”

“I’m too stigmatized in this country, I want to do something that will have a tangible effect on people. I live in a world where I’m not too media-friendly, I would never be successful in this country.”

“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).”

“I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime.”

“I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape.”

“1990: "It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy."”

“On Floyd Mayweather: "Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people, Greatness is being accepted by the people."”

“You guys would rather be with someone else who's equal to your status in life. Tiger Woods, or somebody. I comes across as crass, a Neanderthal, a babbling idiot sometimes. I like to show you that person. I like that person. He makes you want to come and listen to me.”

“In a 2004 interview with This Is London, Tyson announces that since declaring bankruptcy he has been sleeping in homeless shelters and living off handouts: "I've got nowhere to live. I've been crashing with friends, literally sleeping in shelters. Unsavoury characters are giving me money and I'm taking it. I need it. The drug dealers, they sympathise with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character."”

“People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm some victim. There's nothing poor about me.”

“We’re really good friends, we go back to ’86, ’87. Most of my successful and best fights were at Trump’s hotels. He didn’t manage me, though. He was just helping me with my court case. We’re the same guy, a thrust for power, a drive for power. Whatever field we’re in, we need power in that field. That’s just who we are. Balls of energy. We’re not even who we think we are. We’re fire. We’re made of this crap—water, motion, dirt, diamonds, emeralds. We’re made out of that stuff, can you believe it?”

“I still can’t believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I’ve never forgotten it.”

“One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.”

“What I want in a woman is protection. Loyalty. Companionship. Loyalty, friendship, companionship, ferociousness. I want her to protect me, and have my back to the bitter end. If I have a fight, I want her to jump in. Even if I'm winning; even if she's ninety pounds. I like strong women—not necessarily a masculine woman—but I like strong women. I like strong, say a woman who runs a C. E. O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence—massive confidence—and then I want to dominate her sexually.”

“I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.”

“I’m just trying to change my life because I’m not above killing any drug dealer for money.”

“I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.”

“Am I a born boxer? No—if I was, I'd be perfect.”

“I'm not eloquent or distinguished. You guys won't allow me to ever be that, so just bring it on.”

“Do you want to talk to me? Or what do you want to do with me? Watch my eating techniques here? How I gorge the chicken? How I eat like a barracuda?”

“Boxing is a lonely sport.”

“When I was in prison I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap. People shouldn't read that stuff. ”

“The act of treachery is an art, but the traitor himself is a piece of shit.”

“That shit is the real deal. Listen: I’m a black motherfucker from the poorest town in the country. I’ve been through a lot in life. And I know him. When I see him, he shakes my hand and respects my family. None of them—Barack, whoever—nobody else does that. They’re gonna be who they are and disregard me, my family. So I’m voting for him. If I can get 20,000 people or more to vote for him, I’m gonna do it.”

“Che Guevara is an incredible individual. He had so much, but sacrificed it all for the benefit of other people.”

“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.”