“I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.”
– 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
“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
“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 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
“I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”
– Mike Tyson
“That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.”
– Mike Tyson
“I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”
– Mike Tyson
“I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.”
– Mike Tyson
“I know why they don’t like me because they want the money I have.”
– Mike Tyson
“Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.”
– Mike Tyson
“When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.”
– Mike Tyson
“I love to hit people. I love to.”
– Mike Tyson
“If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?”
– Mike Tyson
“I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.”
– 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
“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
“You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.”
– 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.”
– Mike Tyson
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.”
– Mike Tyson
“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.”
– Mike Tyson
“I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.”
– Mike Tyson
“I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.”
– Mike Tyson