Quotes from Mike Tyson

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

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!

Everybody wants to be somebody. Everybody wants to be noticed. Everybody wants to be somebody important. Importance is just treating people good. That's important.

I think the reality of prison is you don't get anything unless you want it in there. Whatever happens to you in prison, this is what you asked for. Nothing happens to you if you don't give that vibe.

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.

That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head

There's no way I would want to hurt him or bust him up. That's why, for the sake of the family as well as himself, I will take him out in the opening round.

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

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

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.

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

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.

If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

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

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

There's nothing like confidence.

Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.