110+ Mike Tyson Quotes On Discipline, Training And Fear

Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old. He is well known for his ferocious and intimidating boxing style as well as his controversial lifestyle outside the ring. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Mike Tyson on discipline, training, life.

Top 10 Mike Tyson Quotes

1. Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.
2. 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.
3. Tupac Shakur always wanted me to smoke weed with him, and I never did it, and I wish I did...That's my biggest regret.
4. Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but nonetheless doing it like you love it.
5. As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
6. I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
7. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
8. Treat the world the way you want to be treated.
9. In order to succeed greatly, you have to be prepared to fail greatly. If you can't do both of them, you've got a problem.
10. God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

Mike Tyson Image Quotes

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Short Quotes

• I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.
• My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
• Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.
• When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
• The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.
• The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
• Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.
• When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.
• God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.
• I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

Mike Tyson Quotes About Discipline

Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in. — Mike Tyson

Discipline makes hard men. Every hard man is capable of being a killer. But every killer is not capable of being a hard man. They can't endure that much. It's all about the endurance. That's why they become killers. Because they can't endure the pain. They need to kill the pain to stop it. — Mike Tyson

You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Life

When you have something in life that you want to accomplish greatly, you have to be willing to give up your happiness…I’ve lost all my sensitivity as far as being embarrassed, being shy, you just have to lose that. — Mike Tyson

I'll never be happy. I believe I'll die alone. I would want it that way. I've been a loner all my life with my secrets and my pain. I'm really lost, but I'm trying to find myself. I'm really a sad, pathetic case. My whole life has been a waste. I've been a failure. I just want to escape. — Mike Tyson

If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you. — Mike Tyson

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. — Mike Tyson

There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head. — Mike Tyson

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos. — Mike Tyson

If they don't have that extreme addict personality, you can never understand how a guy can blow 300 or 400 million dollars. If I have to live at the top of the world, I also have to live at the bottom of the ocean. I don't know how to live in the middle of life. — Mike Tyson

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied. — Mike Tyson

We're all going to have tests in our life... We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors. — Mike Tyson

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Fear

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

You can’t be disturbed by anything. There’s no emotion involved. You can’t feel sorrow, you can’t feel pity, there’s nothing you feel. The job has to be done. — Mike Tyson

It doesn’t faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn’t matter what anyone says about me. I’m a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I’m Tyson here. — Mike Tyson

Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle. — Mike Tyson

I'm gonna make sure you talk about me, and your grandkids and kids after that gonna know about me...your great grandkids will say "wow, wasn't that a bizarre individual?" — Mike Tyson

Whatever you want, especially when you’re striving to be the best in the world at something, there’ll always be disappointments, and you can’t be emotionally tied to them, cos’ they’ll break your spirit. — Mike Tyson

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

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

Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze. — Mike Tyson

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I'll be successful just as well as I was in boxing. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Money

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares. — Mike Tyson

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used. — Mike Tyson

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues. — Mike Tyson

I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back. — Mike Tyson

I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money. — Mike Tyson

Everybody in America is so money-hungry. It's like a rat race and even when you win you're still a freaking rat. — Mike Tyson

It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind. — Mike Tyson

I'm sorry I let everybody down, I'm fighting just to pay my bills. I don't have the stomach for this anymore... I don't have the desire for it. I feel bad for the people... I wish they could get their money back. — Mike Tyson

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have. — Mike Tyson

King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Fighting

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. — Mike Tyson

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting. — Mike Tyson

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight. — Mike Tyson

People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional. — Mike Tyson

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him. — Mike Tyson

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. — Mike Tyson

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say. — Mike Tyson

Even though I heard him say he doesn't believe, cuz' that's why from watching Ali gave me the great deal of confidence and deep-down inner belief to believe there's no man fighting that could beat me. — Mike Tyson

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight — Mike Tyson

I can't change myself. I'm Mike Tyson. I'm a regular kid from the getto striving to do something positive with myself. I happen to fight well. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Boxing

I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating — Mike Tyson

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world. — Mike Tyson

I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.' — Mike Tyson

I was in handcuffs. I was under arrest. I remember there was this old lady looking at me, and I could tell she felt real sorry for me, and she did'nt know but all I wanted to do was take her purse. — Mike Tyson

How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. — Mike Tyson

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

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse. — Mike Tyson

When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. — Mike Tyson

I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die. — Mike Tyson

Box gap is not a thing. If you need to back up to a mirror and bend over to find out how you look, you are playing to the wrong audience. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About People

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. — Mike Tyson

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity. — Mike Tyson

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

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. — Mike Tyson

I just want to conquer people and their souls. — Mike Tyson

I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness. — Mike Tyson

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. — Mike Tyson

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

You can't be everybody's friend, you can't save the world, I learned this word: self-preservation. Once you do that, you can be friends with people, but how would you be a friend to anybody if you're not a friend to yourself. — Mike Tyson

Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Fight

On stage it's just a wild setting - we have a big screen - hecklers, I'm fighting. It's entertainment, but I want to pierce [the audience's] souls and have them think about what I have to say. — Mike Tyson

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career. — Mike Tyson

I was very dedicated and serious about fighting. I'd read about all the fighters. I found out where they came from, knew about their mothers and their fathers . . . I just read all about their lives, their training. — Mike Tyson

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life. — Mike Tyson

I fight for perfection — Mike Tyson

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away. — Mike Tyson

I respect the media. But periodically things come up. Like the guy in Toronto [CP24 Interview]. This is what I run into, also. Everybody that helps you is not necessarily your friend. And everybody that fights you is not necessarily your enemy. So you always have to be on guard. — Mike Tyson

I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid. — Mike Tyson

It's unnatural to fight somebody who has nothing against you and never did anything to you or to your family, who never stole anything from you. And now you've got to go and try to dismantle this guy. — Mike Tyson

If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Feel

I was an emotional manipulator of fighters . . . You have to know how to be cold, you know? Just have no -emotions, no feelings. It takes time, though, to develop that. I'd been working on that since I was 12 years old. It doesn't happen overnight. — Mike Tyson

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm. — Mike Tyson

My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it. — Mike Tyson

I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential. — Mike Tyson

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society. — Mike Tyson

I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain. — Mike Tyson

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. — Mike Tyson

If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals. — Mike Tyson

We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Read

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

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. — Mike Tyson

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. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Quotes About Heart

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children. — Mike Tyson

It's the emotional punches that you can't see that are just overwhelmingly devastating to your heart - your moral fiber. — Mike Tyson

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

I want your heart, I want to eat your children. — Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson Famous Quotes And Sayings

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. — Mike Tyson

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't. — 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

Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability. — Mike Tyson

I didn't prove nothing to anybody. Only to myself. I'm not one of those guys that looks to please world. I'm just happy with what I can do. — Mike Tyson

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

Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it. — Mike Tyson

I like strong women - not necessarily a masculine woman - but I like strong women...say a woman who runs a C.E.O. corporation. I like a strong woman with confidence - massive confidence - and then I want to dominate her sexually. — Mike Tyson

I was blessed with speed and a good punch. Everybody thinks I'm the hardest puncher ever. But I just think I was really fast, and my punches got to the target faster. That's what made my knockouts always seem spectacular. — Mike Tyson

I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror. — Mike Tyson

You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat. — Mike Tyson

We wanna believe that we're different than the average guy that's working 9-to-5, that our thoughts are different than his. Our inspirations and desires are different than his, that's why we succeed and he didn't cos we wanna believe we're different, but he just didn't get the break that we had...or he wasted it on something else. — Mike Tyson

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them. — Mike Tyson

To some people the ego is evil. It gives you so much. It gives you everything you want. But it takes back too much in return. It gives you everything: money, riches, women, glamour, everything you want. But in return it takes back so much, and you're soulless. That's its goal. The ego's goal is to leave you soulless. — Mike Tyson

I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally and personally. — Mike Tyson

I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company. — Mike Tyson

Fighting is spiritual. It appears to be physical from the layman's eyes. In my fights, I seemed to be angry and mad - all that stuff you saw me doing, the yelling and screaming and being mean in the ring - but I'm cool as a cucumber. I can hear everybody talking around me outside of the ring. I can see everybody. I know what is going on. — Mike Tyson

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in. — Mike Tyson

If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail. — Mike Tyson

My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush. — Mike Tyson

You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection. — Mike Tyson

I don't have to be that gentleman ["baddest man on the planet"] anymore. Now I have to be "this" guy. And in order to be "this" guy, I have to be smiling, I have to be gregarious, I have to be entertaining, and I have to be friendly. This is what my career needs now. I've adapted. But 20 years from now, I may need a different persona. — Mike Tyson

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him. — Mike Tyson

I don't care how much you love each other, if you have secrets, it'll never work. That's why she's your loved one, because it's the love of one. Togetherness, you are one. — Mike Tyson

Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It's all lies. I have never laid a finger on her. — Mike Tyson

I'm a historian, and that freaks me out. — Mike Tyson

I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person. — Mike Tyson

I'm going to gut you like a fish. — Mike Tyson

I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad — Mike Tyson

Kindness and humbleness are really good qualities to possess. But, if you have to use the word humble, it means you're not humble. And if you're not humble to this world, this world will thrust humbleness upon you. — Mike Tyson

[Cus D'Amato] told me, 'You're the type of guy who has to be hurt to learn.' I'm pissed off today because he was right about everything. — Mike Tyson

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. — Mike Tyson

I just want to be humble at all times. — Mike Tyson

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see. — Mike Tyson

Life Lessons by Mike Tyson

1. Mike Tyson's life story is a testament to the power of resilience and determination. Despite facing many obstacles and hardships, he was able to achieve success in the boxing world and become a world champion.
2. Mike Tyson's story also teaches us the importance of humility and self-reflection. He has been open about his struggles and mistakes, and has shown that it is possible to learn from them and grow.
3. Finally, Mike Tyson's story shows us the power of hard work and dedication. He worked hard to become the best boxer he could be, and his success is a testament to the rewards of hard work and dedication.