Mike Tyson

“I'm just happy I'm not a phony.”

“Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.”

“I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.”

“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.”

“I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.”

“I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.”

“I just want to conquer people and their souls.”

“I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.”

“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.”

“Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combined. A friend of mine once told me, that when you want to know something about anything, put some fire under it. The fire brings out everything. You want to know something about a motherfucker? Put some fire under his ass. Well, when you put some fire under that cocaine, you know what it's made out of.”

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

“I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.”

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

“I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.”

“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.”

“I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.”

“I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.”

“I'll go back and take what the people owe me.”

“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.”

“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.”