A biography for Mike Tysonhasn’t been written yet.
“Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.”
“You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.”
“I just look around and say, I'm a mess. I don't know why I do things.”
“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.”
“I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.”
“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.”
“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.”
“When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.”
“I'm going to gut you like a fish.”
“I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.”
“My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.”
“I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.”
“I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.”
“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
“You can't stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.”
“I love to hit people. I love to.”
“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.”