Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Tyson

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.

Mike Tyson

What was most important was the knowledge [aspect] of the fight. I learned this early on and just told myself to "upgrade my mind." That's just what I wanted to do my whole life.

Mike Tyson

Fighting is all about calmness and relaxation. My appearance was all an illusion. My appearance is of a mad man, but I'm really calm and collected. Even though I'm fighting, I'm calm and relaxed as possible, despite my displays, because once you get excited, you can't fight at the highest level of your ability.

Mike Tyson

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

Mike Tyson

I never look at a high point in my career. Everyone thinks about the Spinks fight, but that fight only lasted 91 seconds, so it's hard to say it defined my career.

Mike Tyson

The U.S. prostitutes are fighting with everybody, shooting at everybody. It's like dating a gangbanger.

Mike Tyson

If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.

Mike Tyson

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Mike Tyson

Fighters are never who they appear to be

Mike Tyson

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

Mike Tyson

I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

Mike Tyson

For this fight my blood, my soul, everything was on the line.

Mike Tyson

I'am not predictor of fights, but I know when I hit 'em good, the fight is close to an end

Mike Tyson

There's nothing like being young, and happy, and fighting.

Mike Tyson

Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.

Mike Tyson

Fighting is endurance, knocking a guy out in 10 seconds is not fighting, its beating him to the punch. But when you put in that time, that is fighting because you are thinking

Miguel de Cervantes

The man who fights for his ideals is alive.

Neil Kinnock

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

John Muir

The battle we have fought, and are still fighting, for the forests is a part of the eternal conflict between right and wrong.

John Muir

The bat­tle we have fought, and are still fight­ing for the forests is a part of the eter­nal con­flict between right and wrong, and we can­not expect to see the end of it. …So we must count on watch­ing and striv­ing for these trees, and should always be glad to find any­thing so surely good and noble to strive for.

John Wilkes Booth

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

John Wayne

When you stop fighting, that's death.

John Wagner

I guess sometimes you just have to fight your battles.

John Thune

I feel that I am best positioned to fight for America's future here in the trenches of the United States Senate.

John Sterling

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves.

John Stossel

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

John Steinbeck

The Hebrew word, the word timshel - 'Thou mayest' - that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open...Why, that makes a man great...He can choose his course and fight it through and win...I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed - because 'Thou mayest'. ch 24

John Steinbeck

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.... In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals.... What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?

John Slattery

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Never underestimate a backwoods Cajun in a fight, old man.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The strongest steel is forged by the fires of hell. It is pounded and struck repeatedly before it's plunged back into the molten fire. The fire gives it power and flexibility, and the blows give it STRENGTH. Those two thing make the metal pliable and able to withstand every battle it's called upon to fight.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It actually dawned on me that I don’t fight. I just kill whatever annoys me, and it’s over. (Savitar)