534 Quotes by Mike Tyson

I just love to fight. I like to hurt people. I haven’t lost that. I didn’t lose it when I first got a bit of wealth and I haven’t lost it now. The nature of my business is to hurt people.

Being in the ring became my reality, and, in my reality, I’d think I was someone special.

I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.

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.

I know why they don’t like me because they want the money I have.

At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that’s who you come to see.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn’t getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

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.

Back when I was a kid, I never liked the kind of kids that my kids have become. They’re privileged and have things very easy. But I’m proud of them. None of my kids are getting high, they love school, they’re very popular.