On Lennox Lewis
"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My
defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want
to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"
"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him."
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to
kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
On Evander Holyfield
"You got nothing coming, man. I'm going to enjoy this fight."
After biting Holyfield he said, "This is my career. I have children to raise.
I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of
me."
"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."
On Razor Ruddock
"You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big
lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend."
On Tyrell Biggs
Tyson on Tyrell Biggs' complaining to him about low blows "Low blows?
Low blows? Huh! Motherf**ker you're fittin' to die!"
"He was screaming like my wife."
"I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it
slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time."
On His Wife
"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 1 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 smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined."
"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."
On His Childhood
"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 a infantile retard."
On Fans
To a question on whether he feels support from the common fan: "I
don't feel love from them because there's no love. They don't know me
as an individual; they know me for what I actually do. Because they pay
to see me smash anybody. If they're white they pay, [it's] because the
only thing they have respect for is my ability as an athlete. But if I was in
court and I had to use them to testify against me on my character, they
wouldn't testify positively against me and they would think I'm a cad..."
"There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts.
Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right."
"I think the average person thinks I'm a f**king nut and I deserve
whatever happens to me. That's what I believe."
"When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it."
On His Time in Prison
"You have to understand, Frank Bruno would not have been champion if
I had not been in prison. Oliver McCall would not have been champion if
I had not been in prison. A lot of these guys would not have been
champion. Michael Moorer would not have been champion. Those guys
would not have been champion if I had been around. They would have
had no legacy. None of those guys would have had a legacy."
"I would have been in shape. I would have been active. Holyfield, those
guys wouldn't have been champion when I was around, but I went away
for four or five years inactive and that made them competitive for a time."
"But you really have to look at the science of the situation. You guys
come here to talk and report but you don't actually look at the facts of
what this business is all about. The best thing that happened to those
guys and they should stand on their mother's shoulders and kiss my ass
because I went to prison or they would not be existing right now. They'd
be a flash in the pan and would have made some money and opened up a
restaurant or bar somewhere where they live at."
"Lennox Lewis, I'm coming for you man. My style is impetuous. My
defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart. I want
to eat his children. Praise be to Allah!"
"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him."
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to
kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."
On Evander Holyfield
"You got nothing coming, man. I'm going to enjoy this fight."
After biting Holyfield he said, "This is my career. I have children to raise.
I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of
me."
"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."
On Razor Ruddock
"You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big
lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend."
On Tyrell Biggs
Tyson on Tyrell Biggs' complaining to him about low blows "Low blows?
Low blows? Huh! Motherf**ker you're fittin' to die!"
"He was screaming like my wife."
"I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it
slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time."
On His Wife
"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 1 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 smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined."
"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."
On His Childhood
"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 a infantile retard."
On Fans
To a question on whether he feels support from the common fan: "I
don't feel love from them because there's no love. They don't know me
as an individual; they know me for what I actually do. Because they pay
to see me smash anybody. If they're white they pay, [it's] because the
only thing they have respect for is my ability as an athlete. But if I was in
court and I had to use them to testify against me on my character, they
wouldn't testify positively against me and they would think I'm a cad..."
"There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts.
Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right."
"I think the average person thinks I'm a f**king nut and I deserve
whatever happens to me. That's what I believe."
"When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it."
On His Time in Prison
"You have to understand, Frank Bruno would not have been champion if
I had not been in prison. Oliver McCall would not have been champion if
I had not been in prison. A lot of these guys would not have been
champion. Michael Moorer would not have been champion. Those guys
would not have been champion if I had been around. They would have
had no legacy. None of those guys would have had a legacy."
"I would have been in shape. I would have been active. Holyfield, those
guys wouldn't have been champion when I was around, but I went away
for four or five years inactive and that made them competitive for a time."
"But you really have to look at the science of the situation. You guys
come here to talk and report but you don't actually look at the facts of
what this business is all about. The best thing that happened to those
guys and they should stand on their mother's shoulders and kiss my ass
because I went to prison or they would not be existing right now. They'd
be a flash in the pan and would have made some money and opened up a
restaurant or bar somewhere where they live at."
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