Mike Tyson: Quotes about people

Mike Tyson is American boxer. Explore interesting quotes on people.

Mike Tyson: 178 quotes36 likes

“I put people in body bags when I'm right.”

http://archive.southcoasttoday.com/daily/01-99/01-16-99/c01sp085.htm
On himself

“People love you when you're successful, but if you're not, who really cares about you?”

As quoted in Boxing Monthly http://www.boxing-monthly.co.uk/content/0008/three.htm. On his fans

“My father was a pimp before he became a deacon or something. These people know how to handle women. I'm the worst guy in the world with women. They run circles around me.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm On his family

“None of my friends have any respect for me. … No, most of these people thought of me like… some money….”

Mike Tyson

http://www.maxboxing.com/Goldman/eddieg071603.asp
On his fans

“I've been a prima-donna. I was taken care of since I was 13. That's why I am the way I am today. I was spoiled, like a brat. I had anything I wanted. That's crazy to be that way all your life. Everybody's taking care of you, but manipulating you at the same time. Very few people have a life like that. Most people have to work like slaves their whole lives. I've never had a job in my life. What I know how to do is hurt big, tough men — in the street and off.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
On himself

“I'm not too interested in these swan songs I'm continuing to hear. I'm just Mike. I'm a peasant. I'm here to entertain the people. I'm no elite person. At one stage in my life, I had my little jewelry and all my little girlfriends and my big cars and things. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older life is totally about losing everything. As life goes on, we lose more than we acquire. I don't want the finest girl in the world anymore. I'm just trying to stay balanced, basically.”

Mike Tyson

As quoted in USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm (2005). Reported in The New Yorker as: “At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.” http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/06/27/050627ta_talk_remnick On himself

“People are trying to force me to redeem (myself) — certain women, certain mentors. Nobody's going to change me. I'm going to fight that. You can't change me; you can't tame me. When you say that, I'm going to bite you even harder. I'm more ferocious, more complicated. I'm not going to let anybody win a popularity contest off my conduct. You have to understand. It is a pervasive (belief) that I'm an animal — undomesticated as well. But regardless of the bizarre (stuff) I've done, I'm a very rational individual. But everybody still thinks I'm crazy and stupid because that's what they want to believe.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
On himself

“I'm not used to sensitivity any more. When I see people cry when I lose, save your tears. I don't know how to handle people crying any more. I lost my sensitivity like that. Please, you embarrass me when you cry because I don't know what to do when you cry. I don't know what to say.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm. On his fans

“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.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/3026999/Boxing-Tysons-complicated-world.html
On literature

“From the London Times: "Tyson repeated his desire to do missionary work and said he had spoken to a Christian charity about aid work in Bosnia or Rwanda, 'somewhere where people are in dire need.'"”

Mike Tyson

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article532790.ece
On himself

“There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's OK. Just spell my name right.”

Mike Tyson

http://espn.go.com/boxing/columns/graham_tim/1560938.html
On his fans

“I lost my soul as a human being. I lost my self-respect. I'm not a lovable guy, so it's really not hard for people to dislike me.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.maxboxing.com/Goldman/eddieg071603.asp
On himself

“There's no one perfect. … Jimmy Swaggart is a lascivious creature, Mike Tyson is lascivious - but we're not criminally, at least I'm not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate more than other people - it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get a blowjob without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?”

Mike Tyson

http://espn.go.com/boxing/news/2002/0503/1377497.html
On himself

“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."”

Mike Tyson

http://www.boxing-monthly.co.uk/content/0008/three.htm
On boxing

“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.”

Mike Tyson

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/article532790.ece

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

Mike Tyson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA24sDTpMuA
Miscellaneous

“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.”

Mike Tyson

http://jco.usfca.edu/boxing/rape.html
On himself

“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

“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.”

Mike Tyson

In an interview with The Daily Caller. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/21/mike-tyson-why-i-m-a-muslim-for-donald-trump.html (January 21, 2016) On Donald Trump

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

Mike Tyson

As quoted in The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/11613846/mike-tyson-tattoos-meaning/.