1. Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. 2. 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.
3. 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.
4. God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
6. I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more.
8. I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.
9. 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.
11. 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.
12. I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
14. You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.
15. 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.
16. I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.
18. I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
19. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
20. 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.
22. If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?
23. 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.
25. I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
26. Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
28. I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.
29. When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
31. Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
33. People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.
34. You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
36. 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.
37. I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.
39. Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
40. 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.
41. I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.
43. I love to hit people. I love to.
44. I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.
45. I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.
46. I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
48. That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.
49. That's what people respect, the fact that I wasn't a chump that laid on his back and gave up.
50. The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don't have any particular goal in sight.
52. I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
53. I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.
54. I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.
55. I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.
57. 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.
58. I'm going to gut you like a fish.
60. Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.
61. When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
62. Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.
64. I'm too stigmatized in this country, I want to do something that will have a tangible effect on people. I live in a world where I'm not too media-friendly, I would never be successful in this country.
66. Am I a born boxer? No - if I was, I'd be perfect.
67. (to a reporter in 2002) It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters (Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson), but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.
69. (on boxing) "It's a lonely sport," Mike Tyson, who is surrounded by people who love him, says.
71. Boxing is the hurt business.
72. Every shot was thrown with bad intentions.
73. I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time.
75. It's nothing personal, but I'm going to kill this guy.
76. I just don't have the guts for it anymore. I don't want to disgrace the sport. This is a great sport. It can take men from humble beginnings and have them rub shoulders with royalty.
78. Then I came out of jail and beat guys because they were basically scared.
79. I don't have the desire to hurt anyone anymore. I see a fly, but I don't have the nerve to get up and kill it.
80. I don't have the stomach for this anymore. I don't have anything to fight for anymore.
82. This is a weird feeling in my life I have to deal with, not being a violent man anymore when my whole life's reputation was built on being extremely violent. I just don't know how to deal with that right now. I don't even go to strip clubs no more. I don't know who I am sometimes, but I am not the guy I used to be. I'm not an angel or anything. I'm still lascivious, periodically. I'm just looking for some balance in my life.
85. I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
86. I think I'm a pig. I have this uncanny ability to look at myself in the mirror and say: "This is a pig. You are a f***ing piece of s**t".
87. I can talk about humility, but I'm not humble. I mean, if you say: "I'm humble," you've just contradicted yourself. But I'm trying to be, man, I'm trying so hard.
89. There's no one perfect… Jimmy Swaggart is a lascivious creature, Mike Tyson is lascivious - but we're not criminally, at least I'm not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate more than other people - it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get a blow job without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?
91. One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.
93. My whole life has been a waste - I've been a failure.
94. One of my friends once saw another guy's (criminal) record and said: "Look, this guy is a born troublemaker, just a loser." I had to tell him: "No, that's my record - and it doesn't include my juvenile history".
96. I probably have a 20,000-word vocabulary. I'll match my wits with anyone on literature, science and the arts.
97. My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
98. (in a 2004 interview with "This Is London", Tyson announces that since declaring bankruptcy he has been sleeping in homeless shelters and living off handouts) I've got nowhere to live. I've been crashing with friends, literally sleeping in shelters. Unsavoury characters are giving me money and I'm taking it. I need it. The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
100. 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.
101. I lost my soul as a human being. I lost my self-respect. I'm not a lovable guy, so it's really not hard for people to dislike me.
103. 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.
105. I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some (sex).
106. People are trying to force me to redeem (myself) - certain women, certain mentors. Nobody's going to change me. I'm going to fight that. You can't change me; you can't tame me. When you say that, I'm going to bite you even harder. I'm more ferocious, more complicated. I'm not going to let anybody win a popularity contest off my conduct. You have to understand. It is a pervasive (belief) that I'm an animal - undomesticated as well. But regardless of the bizarre (stuff) I've done, I'm a very rational individual. But everybody still thinks I'm crazy and stupid because that's what they want to believe.
107. I'm just trying to change my life because I'm not above killing any drug dealer for money.
110. I didn't know how to be any other way. I felt like one of those barbarian kings just coming to conquer the Roman Empire.
111. Y'all guys can't define me or define my work as a father, I'm many things I'm many things you know, yeah I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell raiser, I'm a father, I'm a loving father, I'm, you know, a semi- good husband, you know what I mean? What? You know I'm just a man out here trying to enjoy my, you know I was born poor I ain't never had nothing I don't know how to act but the real thing is i'm just here to be me. I don't care about who anyone things at this stage in my life but yeah, I'm pretty much a tyrant titan. Yeahs thats who I am.
112. I'm not eloquent or distinguished. You guys won't allow me to ever be that, so just bring it on.
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