“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

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "People say 'Poor guy.' That insults me. I despise sympathy. So I screwed up. I made some mistakes. 'Poor guy,' like I'm…" by Mike Tyson?
Mike Tyson photo
Mike Tyson 89
American boxer 1966

Related quotes

Georg Büchner photo

“There is something beautiful about virtue, Captain. But I am just a poor guy.”

Georg Büchner (1813–1837) German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose

Scene VI.
Woyzeck (1879)

Shannon Hale photo
Greg Giraldo photo
Theo de Raadt photo
Dave Bautista photo
Charles Lamb photo
Gerhard Richter photo

“I would rather paint the victims than the killers... When Warhol painted the killers, I painted the victims. The subjects were of poor people, banal poor dogs.”

Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932

comment on his painting 'Eight student nurses', compared with Warhol's art-work 'Thirteen most wanted man', in 1964
Source: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 56, note 79

“Some people are so poor all they have is money.”

Source: yt

Rodney Dangerfield photo

Related topics