“Discipline is doing what you hate to do but doing it like you love it.” ― Mike Tyson
“Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.” ― 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’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
“Anger is my biggest enemy in life.” ― Mike Tyson
“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
“We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight.” ― Mike Tyson
“As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.” ― 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
“You need to learn independence. You have to be independent – it builds character.” ― 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
“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, because they’ll break your spirit.” ― Mike Tyson
“Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we’re going to get out of it.” ― Mike Tyson
“Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence. Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.” ― 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
“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
“There’s nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don’t make the same ones. We don’t want to duplicate them.” ― Mike Tyson
“Sometimes when people don’t have the determination, the will and the the confidence they give in to the slightest struggle” – Mike Tyson
“People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.” ― Mike Tyson
“You can change your mind or your life whenever you want to.” ― Mike Tyson
“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.” ― Mike Tyson
“I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.” ― 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
“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
“Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.” ― Mike Tyson
“The closer I get to the ring, I’m more confident once I’m in the ring I’m a god no one can beat me.” ― Mike Tyson
“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.” ― Mike Tyson
“Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.” ― 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
“ 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
“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
“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
“Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence.” ― 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
“Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.” ― Mike Tyson
“In order for me to achieve… I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words, I had to fake it until I make it.” ― Mike Tyson
“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.” ― Mike Tyson
“Some students would make fun of me, but nobody messed with me.” ― 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
“Everyone that you fight is not your enemy and everyone who helps you is not your friend.” ― Mike Tyson
“The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional.” ― Mike Tyson
