I used to think he was insane. Now I'm not so sure.
Enjoy these selected Mike Tyson Quotes.
"The most difficult part about fighting is the training, because....believe it or not, the easy part of fighting is the fighting."
"I aimed for his ear…I wanted to bust his eardrum…every punch had bad intentions."
"My shots are so accurate and so precise...not to be egotistic...but when they land they are so precise...I can't help it who you are...you have to go down, because there is a law when Mike Tyson hits you."
"My main objective is to be professional, but to kill him."
"Everyone knows you're a transvestite and you're in love with me."
"He's not impaired! He got ears! I got one eye! Big deal!"
"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent."
"I was hittin' him with body punches and I hurt him. Actually he was cryin' in there, makin' woman gestures like.....I can't..define it, but I knew he was breakin' down soon"
"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand - he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard."
"How dare they challenge me with their somewhat primitive skills? They're just as good as dead."
"Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution."
"The title doesn't deserve to be treated with respect because the title is like a woman - it's like love - it doesn't care about anything but itself. It doesn't care who possesses it.... It's like a woman: 'Fuck you, I'm so beautiful I can get the next man with more money, with a better body."
"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."
"So that don't mean you're a tough guy. It's easy for somebody to shank somebody or beat up people with ten or twelve guys or something. I'm talkin' about man for man, bravo for bravo. I can stand up with any man. Red blood, blue blood, whoever they are."
* [To a female reporter] "It's no doubt I am going to win this fight and I feel confident about winning this fight. I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicates with them. So you shouldn't talk anymore... Unless you want to, you know. I wanna talk nice to you, and talk about fornicating with you, and letting you suck my dick. 'Cause if I was eloquent with you, you would still look at me as a scumbag."
"You can't last two minutes in my world, bitch. Look at you scared now, you ho.... scared like a little white pussy. Scared of the real man. I'll fuck you 'til you love me, faggot!"
"If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares."
"I feel like sometimes that I was born, that I'm not meant for this society because everyone here is a fucking hypocrite. Everybody says they believe in God but they don't do God's work."
"I may like fornicating more than other people. It's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? Know what I mean? I been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blow job?"
"He was screaming like my wife."
"My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?"
"I got a imam, I got a rabbi, I got a priest, I got a reverend - I got 'em all. But I don't want to be holier-than-thou. I want to help everybody and still get some."
"I’m a big fan of children’s hospitals."
"I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls."
"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. I think it's un-American not to go out with a woman, not to be with a beautiful woman, not to get my dick sucked."
"They would give Jeffrey Dahmer a second chance before they gave me another one. If you saw a lineup and saw Tyson and Dahmer and they asked, 'Who killed and ate those people?' you would pick me and not Jeffrey."
"My power is discombobulatingly devastating; I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."
"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity."
"You're smart too late and old too soon, I just got caught up in that suction cup. I feel like Rip Van Winkle right now."
"I really dig Hannibal. Hannibal had real guts. He rode elephants into Cartilage."
"At one stage in my life, I had my little jewelry and all my little girlfriends and my big cars and things. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older life is totally about losing everything."
"I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."
"He was tryin' to scrutinize wit' my brain!"
"I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let me smash that silverback's snotbox. He declined."
"I guess I'm gonna fade into Bolivian."