More - Mike Tyson Quotes

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. So was Ray Robinson. Ray Leonard. They got a man in trouble and they threw everything they had at him. Bring him down.

Mike Tyson

 

Now I'm here. Imagine if I'd kept screwing around those six years. I'd have been in the same place I was. In jail. Or dead. One of those.

Mike Tyson

 

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. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn.

Mike Tyson

 Best Friends

Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!

Mike Tyson

 Defense

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin [Tyson's wife]. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

Mike Tyson

 

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. That's what I believe.

Mike Tyson

 

I'm not going to keep boxing. It's part of my past and now I want to live my life.

Mike Tyson

 Boxing

I don't have the guts to stay in this sport anymore.

Mike Tyson

 

[Tyson didn't either. It was not the result of some exchange but simply a straight shot at an unprotected chin. It happened so quickly that Tyson was surprised to see Botha go down.] I thought he must have quit, ... I didn't even know I'd thrown it.

Mike Tyson

 

I have been training for a few months. You guys [the media] will be the judgement on whether I have the eye of the tiger or not.

Mike Tyson

 Judgement