On Boxing
"I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the
bone into the brain."
"Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's
the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that
everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes
insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's a highly intensive
pressure sport that allows people to just lose it [their self-control]."
"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes
me angry. They're just as good as dead."
"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle
tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt
to enter my realm."
Tyson: "It's interesting that you put me in the league with those
illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've
proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the
biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check
the cash register."
"Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One
day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who
takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get
discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in."
"I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'm going to strip them
of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain."
On the Media
“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you
will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And
only then will you feel my pain.”
[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 fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk
anymore... Unless you want to, you know."
"People [are] going to say what they say. It has to be for a reason. It's
just for a reason. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. I ask
this lady a lewd question because I'm in a lot of pain too. I have some
pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life. And Lewis, I'm trying to give
some of that pain to ya'll."
"You gentlemen have no idea what it's like to be myself, no idea what it's
like. I'm not interested in being humiliated anymore."
"Sometimes you guys have no pride, so no matter what I say, you guys
... it doesn't affect you because you don't care about nothing but money.
So every now and then I kick your f**king ass and stomp on you and
put some kind of pain and inflict some of the pain on you because you
deserve to feel the pain that I feel."
"If I take this camera and put it in your face for 20 years, I don't know
what you might be. You might be a homosexual if I put that camera on
you since you were 13 years old. I've been on that camera since I was
13 years old."
On Religion
"All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here
I'd fight him too."
"I feel like sometimes that I was born, that I'm not meant for this society
because everyone here is a f**king hypocrite. Everybody says they
believe in God but they don't do God's work. Everybody counteracts
what God is really about. If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would
show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? I'm a Muslim, but
do you think Jesus would love me ... I think Jesus would have a drink
with me and discuss ... why you acting like that? Now, he would be cool.
He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of
Jesus even ... They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me
and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and
he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he
comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him
again."
Stacey McKinley: "He sees a guy beggin' in the street and he gives him a
hundred dollars. I'll say, 'Man, y'know the guy's just gonna spend it on
crack!' But he says, 'I leave it to Allah to judge him.'"
"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."
"I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the
bone into the brain."
"Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's
the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that
everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes
insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's a highly intensive
pressure sport that allows people to just lose it [their self-control]."
"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes
me angry. They're just as good as dead."
"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle
tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt
to enter my realm."
Tyson: "It's interesting that you put me in the league with those
illustrious fighters [Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Jack Johnson], but I've
proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the
biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check
the cash register."
"Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One
day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who
takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get
discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in."
"I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'm going to strip them
of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain."
On the Media
“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you
will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And
only then will you feel my pain.”
[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 fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk
anymore... Unless you want to, you know."
"People [are] going to say what they say. It has to be for a reason. It's
just for a reason. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. I ask
this lady a lewd question because I'm in a lot of pain too. I have some
pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life. And Lewis, I'm trying to give
some of that pain to ya'll."
"You gentlemen have no idea what it's like to be myself, no idea what it's
like. I'm not interested in being humiliated anymore."
"Sometimes you guys have no pride, so no matter what I say, you guys
... it doesn't affect you because you don't care about nothing but money.
So every now and then I kick your f**king ass and stomp on you and
put some kind of pain and inflict some of the pain on you because you
deserve to feel the pain that I feel."
"If I take this camera and put it in your face for 20 years, I don't know
what you might be. You might be a homosexual if I put that camera on
you since you were 13 years old. I've been on that camera since I was
13 years old."
On Religion
"All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here
I'd fight him too."
"I feel like sometimes that I was born, that I'm not meant for this society
because everyone here is a f**king hypocrite. Everybody says they
believe in God but they don't do God's work. Everybody counteracts
what God is really about. If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would
show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? I'm a Muslim, but
do you think Jesus would love me ... I think Jesus would have a drink
with me and discuss ... why you acting like that? Now, he would be cool.
He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of
Jesus even ... They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me
and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and
he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he
comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him
again."
Stacey McKinley: "He sees a guy beggin' in the street and he gives him a
hundred dollars. I'll say, 'Man, y'know the guy's just gonna spend it on
crack!' But he says, 'I leave it to Allah to judge him.'"
"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."
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