Quotes by Mike Tyson

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“I love to hit people. I love to.”

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

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

“I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.”

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

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

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

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

“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 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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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