Best Mike Tyson Quote Collection: Famous Words from Boxing Legend

Liputan6.com, Jakarta Mike Tyson is one of the greatest boxers ever. He was not just strong in the ring, but also spoke powerful words. His quotes are famous around the world. People remember what he said about life, fear, fighting, and success. These words show his tough side and his smart thinking. Many of his quotes help people understand life better. They teach us about being strong, facing problems, and never giving up.

1. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
2. Everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face.
3. I am the best fighter ever in history.
4. I am the most brutal and dangerous champion ever.
5. No one can stop me in the ring.
6. My style is wild and my defense is perfect.
7. I am fierce and want to win every fight.
8. I will fight any man or any animal.
9. If Jesus was here, I would fight him too.
10. When I fight someone, I want to break his spirit.
11. I want to take away his strength and courage.
12. My power is so strong it can destroy people.
13. I can feel muscles break under my punches.
14. It is crazy that people try to fight me.
15. My main goal in fights is to be professional but deadly.
16. Boxing is not a tough man sport, it is a thinking man sport.
17. A tough man will get hurt badly in boxing.
18. The boxing part is easy, training is the hard part.
19. When you get in the ring, that is like a vacation.
20. In the gym, you must do things until you are tired.

1. Everyone you fight is not your enemy.
2. Everyone who helps you is not your friend.
3. A man who is friendly with everyone is enemy to himself.
4. Man is not meant to be humble, he is meant to be humbled.
5. You think you know the difference between hero and coward.
6. There is no difference in what heroes and cowards feel.
7. What they do makes them different from each other.
8. Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same inside.
9. You must have discipline to do what heroes do.
10. You must stop yourself from doing coward things.
11. In order to be good, you must lose and understand loss.
12. Loss is part of life that everyone must face.
13. Real freedom is having nothing at all.
14. I was more free when I had no money.
15. We are just dust and absolutely nothing in the end.
16. Our legacy means nothing when we die.
17. Time is like a book with beginning, middle, and end.
18. Time is just a cycle that keeps repeating.
19. It would be good to be fake somebody than real nobody.
20. God and I have to deal with my own salvation.

1. Fear is like fire that can help or hurt you.
2. If you learn to control fear, it works for you.
3. If you do not control fear, it will destroy you.
4. Fear can destroy everything around you too.
5. Fear is like snowball on a hill.
6. You can pick it up and throw it before it rolls.
7. Once it rolls down and gets big, it will crush you.
8. Never let fear grow without having control over it.
9. Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning new things.
10. But fear is also your best friend if used right.
11. If you can control fire, it can cook for you.
12. If you cannot control it, it burns everything down.
13. You must never allow fear to build up too much.
14. Without control, you cannot achieve your goals.
15. Without control, you cannot save your own life.
16. Fear can help you focus and become stronger.
17. Most people do not deal with fear very well.
18. How much pain can you handle in life.
19. Most people who talk big cannot handle real problems.
20. Fear makes you freeze like a rat when hit.

1. Discipline is doing what you hate like you love it.
2. You have to do things you do not want to do.
3. But you must do them with love and passion.
4. The ability to apply discipline makes you professional.
5. Do what needs to be done no matter how you feel.
6. This is what makes a true professional person.
7. Confidence comes from testing yourself and putting yourself on line.
8. It does not come from thin air or magic.
9. It comes from practicing in your mind over and over.
10. You must visualize to develop the confidence you want.
11. Doing something you hate makes you better at your job.
12. Taking out trash can make you better boxer.
13. Because doing things you hate with love is good training.
14. This is good conditioning for people who want greatness.
15. You have to sacrifice much of your life to be great.
16. In America, we are good at breaking things.
17. But we are not good at knowing where pieces land.
18. If you are good and your plan is working well.
19. Somewhere during that time, you will get the bad end.
20. Let us see how you deal with difficult times.

1. Your mind is not your friend, you must know that.
2. You have to fight with your mind and control it.
3. You must put your mind in its proper place.
4. You have to control your emotions every day.
5. Being tired in the ring is ninety percent in your head.
6. Tiredness is just excuse of man who wants to quit.
7. You must push bad thoughts out of your mind.
8. When your mind says stop, you must keep going.
9. In the gym, you do things until you are sore.
10. Deep in your mind you say you do not want more.
11. I push that feeling out of my mind completely.
12. You have to face your demons or they follow you.
13. The ones who quit will have demons follow them forever.
14. They had chance to face problems but they did not.
15. You must face your demons or they follow you to eternity.
16. Social media made people too comfortable with disrespecting others.
17. People disrespect others without getting punched in face.
18. I take pills so I do not hurt other people.
19. I am very angry and need medicine to stay calm.
20. My personal life is messed up because of my anger.

1. If you do not have extreme personality, you cannot understand.
2. You cannot understand how guy can lose 300 million dollars.
3. If I live at top of world, I also live at bottom.
4. I do not know how to live in middle of life.
5. I am fighting just to pay my bills now.
6. I do not have stomach for fighting anymore.
7. I do not have desire to fight like before.
8. I feel bad for people who paid to watch me.
9. I wish they could get their money back from me.
10. I am sorry I let everybody down with my performance.
11. I have been robbed of most of my money.
12. Can I at least get some simple pleasures in life.
13. I sacrifice so much of my life for boxing.
14. Can I at least enjoy some basic things.
15. I may like certain things more than other people.
16. That is just who I am as a person.
17. Greatness is not hiding yourself from people.
18. Greatness is being accepted by the people around you.
19. He cannot take his kids to school by himself.
20. He is a small, scared man who needs protection.

1. I do not understand why people want to get rid of pigeons.
2. Pigeons do not bother anyone at all.
3. One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon dead.
4. His name was Julius and I was very sad.
5. I was going to use his cage as baseball bat.
6. I left the cage on my steps and went inside.
7. When I came back, garbage man put cage in crusher.
8. I rushed him and hit him hard on the head.
9. He fell down and was shaking on the floor.
10. These pigeons live together for 10 or 15 years.
11. But when I throw food down, they kill each other.
12. It is same with fighters who need money.
13. We love and respect each other outside ring.
14. But we need that money to survive in life.
15. When I was younger, I was completely liberal.
16. But as I get older and look at my children.
17. When I see what is out there in world.
18. I get a little more conservative in my thinking.
19. I wish one of you guys had children.
20. So I could hurt them and make you feel my pain.

1. It is good to know how to read books.
2. But it is dangerous to read without understanding.
3. You must know how to interpret what you read.
4. These books are not just for decoration.
5. I think Machiavelli is most sophisticated writer after Shakespeare.
6. He was way ahead of his time in thinking.
7. He was such a manipulative person in his writing.
8. Everything he accomplished he did by kissing up to people.
9. When I was in prison, I read many deep books.
10. That Tolstoy stuff - people should not read that.
11. Those books are too heavy and depressing for most people.
12. Reading can be dangerous if you do not understand meaning.
13. You must learn to think about what books really say.
14. Some writers try to manipulate readers with their words.
15. You must be smart about what you choose to believe.
16. Education is important but wisdom is more important.
17. Learning from experience teaches you more than books.
18. You can read about fighting but you must practice it.
19. Knowledge without action is completely useless to you.
20. Smart people know difference between facts and wisdom.

1. I guess I am going to fade into Bolivian.
2. I am not Mother Teresa, but I am not Charles Manson either.
3. A Mastiff dog is to regular dog what Lion is to house cat.
4. He stands alone and all others fall before him.
5. His courage does not go beyond his temper and kindness.
6. Burning cocaine is worst smell in the world.
7. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison together.
8. When you want to know about anything, put fire under it.
9. Fire brings out everything that is hidden inside.
10. When you put fire under cocaine, you know what it is made of.
11. I am not trying to punch him in the nose.
12. I am trying to punch soft tissue behind his nose.
13. I try to punch the bone into the brain.
14. When you see me smash somebody skull, you enjoy it.
15. My sex life is messed up because of my problems.
16. My body does not work right because of medicine.
17. I have to take pills so I do not kill people.
18. I am very angry and need help to control myself.
19. Sometimes I say crazy things that shock people.
20. But that is just how I express my feelings honestly.

1. Change will not come if we wait for other person.
2. We are the ones we have been waiting for.
3. We are the change that we want to see.
4. Fighting is all about being calm and relaxed.
5. My appearance was all just an illusion for others.
6. I look like mad man, but I am really calm inside.
7. You must learn to control how you appear to others.
8. Sometimes looking scary helps you win before fighting starts.
9. But inside you must stay calm and think clearly.
10. Most people judge others by how they look outside.
11. Smart people know that inside and outside are different things.
12. You can use people expectations against them in competition.
13. Life teaches you lessons through pain and suffering.
14. The people who quit early never learn these lessons.
15. You must stay and fight to become wise person.
16. Every loss teaches you something important about yourself.
17. Every win shows you what you can accomplish.
18. Both winning and losing are necessary for growth.
19. The most important fight is the one inside your head.
20. If you can control your mind, you can control your life.