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“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth”
― Mike Tyson

“Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.”
― Mike Tyson

“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Social media made y'all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
― Mike Tyson

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
― Mike Tyson

“a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“In America, we’re really good at blowing things up but not so good in knowing where the pieces will land.”
― Mike Tyson

“You think you know the difference between a hero and a coward, Mike? Well, there is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
― Mike Tyson

“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Your mind is not your friend, Mike. I hope you know that. You have to fight with your mind, control it, put it in its place. You have to control your emotions. Fatigue in the ring is ninety percent psychological. It’s just the excuse of a man who wants to quit.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.”
― Mike Tyson

“The boxing’s the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that’s the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you’re sore and deep in your mind you say, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ I push that out of my mind.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“(Quoting Cus D'Amato)
Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.”
― Mike Tyson

“One day Cus came to me. “You know, Camille really wants you to do your chores. I could care less if you did, but you should do them because it will make you a better boxer.” “How’s taking out the trash going to make me a better boxer?” I scoffed. “Because doing something you hate to do like you love it is good conditioning for someone aspiring towards greatness.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“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”
― Mike Tyson

“Confidence was everything. But in order to possess that confidence, you had to test yourself and put yourself on the line. It doesn’t come from osmosis, out of the air. It comes from consistently going over the visualization in your mind to help you develop the confidence that you want to possess.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It’s like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you.”
― Mike Tyson

“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.”
― Mike Tyson

“MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D’Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don’t know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life. “Consider”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.”
― Mike Tyson

“Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combined. A friend of mine once told me, that when you want to know something about anything, put some fire under it. The fire brings out everything. You want to know something about a motherfucker? Put some fire under his ass. Well, when you put some fire under that cocaine, you know what it's made out of.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.”
― Mike Tyson

“Sometimes I get in my head and I think I am somebody, and I am easily offended. When I know I am nobody, I can never be offended.”
― Mike Tyson

“In her book, Robin implied that we hadn’t slept together, but I actually nailed her the first or second night when she came to my hotel. Instead she claimed that we strolled through the mall and played with puppies at pet shops for hours. Can you see me in a motherfucking mall, the heavyweight champ of the world? What the fuck am I doing in a mall?”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth