Don King Mike Tyson Quotes

#1. King has big offices, houses, and he pays his fighters a lot of money. An, because he's black, the FBI figures he must be doing something crooked. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#2. I tried to stay away from King. You can't do it. It's like staying away from taxes. Sooner or later, he'll get you. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#3. If you don't follow Don King, you get stepped on. #Quote by Larry Holmes

#4. Bonjour to all the beautiful people of Montreal because this is like home to me. We had Sugar Ray Leonard here who changed the globe and took on Roberto Duran right here in Montreal. How did we get to Montreal? Because it's one of the fairest cities in the world. We were looking for a neutral site and we picked Montreal. Sugar Ray Leonard came in and Roberto Duran beat him - because we got our fair shake in Montreal. #Quote by Don King

#5. about a bird, wasn't there, Mike? #Quote by Stephen King

#6. Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon ... smart too late. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#7. At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#8. McVries seemed not to have heard.
"These things, they don't even bear the weight of conversation," he said, "J.D. Salinger ... John Knowles ... even James Kirkwood and that guy Don Bredes ... they've destroyed being an adolescent, Garraty. If you're a sixteen-year-boy, you can't discuss the pains of adolescent love with any decency anymore. You just come off sounding like fucking Ron Howard with a hardon."
McVries laughed a little hysterically. #Quote by Stephen King

#9. Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#10. I can deal with adversity. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#11. 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. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#12. Anything that helps pay the bills, I love it. Anything that makes people happy, I'm happy with that. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#13. People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#14. I don't remember much about the specifics of the economics courses that I majored in - I apparently internalized the key concepts - but I still remember vividly the thrill of reading 'Don Quixote,' Epictetus, 'The Aeneid,' 'King Lear' and 'Candide,' and how contemporary the stories and ideas in these old and ancient texts struck me. #Quote by Daniel S. Loeb

#15. I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#16. 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. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#17. I have to always make sure I don't stay in one place and spend too much time one subject. I have my wife tell me [through an earpiece], "Come back! You're taking too long on that subject." I need to be reeled in. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#18. An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King of Insult. But the guy that gave me the best title - and I use it to this day - was Johnny Carson. He called me Mr. Warmth. #Quote by Don Rickles

#19. I just want to conquer people and their souls. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#20. I still can't believe [ Muhammad Ali ] knows my name. It astounds me he knows who I am. I first met Ali in 1976. I was locked up in a juvenile home and he came to visit. I've never forgotten it. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#21. I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#22. 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. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#23. I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'am going to strip them of their health. I bring pain a lot of pain #Quote by Mike Tyson

#24. 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. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#25. The ability to apply the discipline, the ability to do what needs to be done no matter how he feels inside, in my opinion, is the definition of a true professional. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#26. I would never know how good I was if I didn't have Bob Arum. Bob Arum is white, Jewish; He was working for prosecutor's office. I'm black, an ex-convict, ex-number runner. Who would be most likely to succeed? It would be Bob 100-1. Yet I beat Bob on everything we ever done, with love. #Quote by Don King

#27. Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#28. I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#29. Every morning I wake up in a home where Mike Tyson previously laid in the bed and he earned over $500 million his career. It makes me conscious. #Quote by Curtis Jackson

#30. You must believe the unbelievable, snatch the possible out of the impossible. #Quote by Don King

#31. I'm not looking to be the King of Comedy, or the King of Hollywood. I just want to be able to keep making stuff that I'm into and have the opportunity to challenge myself with, wearing different hats. #Quote by Mike White

#32. I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.' #Quote by Mike Tyson

#33. If you're a professional, you'll make it work. you can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#34. You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay. #Quote by Don King

#35. Everybody's got plans ... until they get hit. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#36. 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. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#37. ...I am better Thoughtful Prince than King.
Potential holds appeal since in its castle walls
One is protected from the awful shame
Of failure. #Quote by Mike Bartlett

#38. Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood. #Quote by Don Rickles

#39. I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#40. 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. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#41. I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#42. We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining event. Yet as late as halfway through 1792, most of the familiar images of the revolution had yet to occur. Louis XVI was still king, and the Assembly was negotiating a new constitutional arrangement for the monarchy, not so different from Britain's Glorious Revolution of 1688. #Quote by Mike Jay

#43. My dad calls me 'Mac' a lot, from 'Mike Tyson's Punch Out' - Little Mac is the main character. I was obsessed. I can still beat Mike Tyson on 'Punch Out.' #Quote by Mayer Hawthorne

#44. When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#45. Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#46. Most of my fans are too sensitive. I'm a cruel and cold and hard person. I've been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry. #Quote by Mike Tyson

#47. I don't want to be grotesque, but when you're 330 pounds, it's hard to wipe your ass. You know? #Quote by Mike Tyson

#48. I know that [Mike] Tyson talked about wanting to eat his opponent's children, but I don't think he ever had the balls to do it. I'm different - when I kidnapped Bill Lawrence's daughter, I cut off all of her fingers before sending my demands so that I wouldn't have to sit there and wait for him to ignore them. We worked things about about nine hours in, which is good because I ate her thumb as a midnight snack. #Quote by Zach Braff

#49. I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one. #Quote by Mike Tyson