On His Family
"No one gives a f**k about me. No one cares if my children starve, if
they're on welfare. I have to support my children. I need more money."
Mike, on his mother who died in 1982: "I never saw my mother happy
with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as
being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that
she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her Or know
about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally
and personally."
On Himself
"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and
everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes,
these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went
through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't
have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."
"I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson!"
"Fear is your best friend Or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can
control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control
it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control
your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
"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 ... It's just what I said before,
everybody in this country is a big f**king liar. [The media] tells people ...
that this person did this and this person did that and then we find out
that were just human and we find out that Michael Jordan cheats on his
wife just like everybody else and that we all cheat on our f**king wife in
one way Or another either emotionally, physically Or sexually Or one
way."
"There's no one perfect. We're always gonna do that. Jimmy Swaggart is
lascivious, Mike Tyson is lascivious -- but we're not criminally, at least I'm
not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate
more than other people -- it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my
life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my
money, can I at least get [oral sex] without the people wanting to harass
me and wanting to throw me in jail?"
"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'm the most irresponsible person in the world. The reason I'm like that
is because, at 21, you all gave me $50 Or $100 million, and I didn't know
what to do. I'm from the ghetto. I don't know how to act. One day I'm
in a dope house robbing somebody. The next thing I know, 'You're the
heavyweight champion of the world.' ... Who am I? What am I? I don't
even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child. I'm being abused. I'm being
robbed by lawyers. I think I have more money than I do. I'm just a
dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks I'm someone. And you
tell me I should be responsible?"
On America
"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from
the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement
deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country
wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery,
murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."
On His Mental Health
"I don't know if I'm mentally sick, but I have... episodes sometimes. I'm
a depressant kind of dude. I have episodes, and I'm human. But no one
cares about my health as a human because sometimes I'm in my episodes
when I'm at work."
"Well, [contemplating suicide] goes through everyone's mind, I'm sure.
And if it doesn't I really must be crazy. Everyone thinks about that
because sometimes, you know what I mean, it's just tough being a
ni**er and it's tough being a bad ni**er."
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things
as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too
hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."
"I'm on the Zoloft [an antidepressant] to keep from killing y'all."
"No one gives a f**k about me. No one cares if my children starve, if
they're on welfare. I have to support my children. I need more money."
Mike, on his mother who died in 1982: "I never saw my mother happy
with me and proud of me for doing something: She only knew me as
being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that
she knew I didn't pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her Or know
about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it's crushing emotionally
and personally."
On Himself
"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and
everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes,
these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went
through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't
have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."
"I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson!"
"Fear is your best friend Or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can
control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control
it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control
your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
"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 ... It's just what I said before,
everybody in this country is a big f**king liar. [The media] tells people ...
that this person did this and this person did that and then we find out
that were just human and we find out that Michael Jordan cheats on his
wife just like everybody else and that we all cheat on our f**king wife in
one way Or another either emotionally, physically Or sexually Or one
way."
"There's no one perfect. We're always gonna do that. Jimmy Swaggart is
lascivious, Mike Tyson is lascivious -- but we're not criminally, at least I'm
not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate
more than other people -- it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my
life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my
money, can I at least get [oral sex] without the people wanting to harass
me and wanting to throw me in jail?"
"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'm the most irresponsible person in the world. The reason I'm like that
is because, at 21, you all gave me $50 Or $100 million, and I didn't know
what to do. I'm from the ghetto. I don't know how to act. One day I'm
in a dope house robbing somebody. The next thing I know, 'You're the
heavyweight champion of the world.' ... Who am I? What am I? I don't
even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child. I'm being abused. I'm being
robbed by lawyers. I think I have more money than I do. I'm just a
dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks I'm someone. And you
tell me I should be responsible?"
On America
"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from
the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement
deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country
wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery,
murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."
On His Mental Health
"I don't know if I'm mentally sick, but I have... episodes sometimes. I'm
a depressant kind of dude. I have episodes, and I'm human. But no one
cares about my health as a human because sometimes I'm in my episodes
when I'm at work."
"Well, [contemplating suicide] goes through everyone's mind, I'm sure.
And if it doesn't I really must be crazy. Everyone thinks about that
because sometimes, you know what I mean, it's just tough being a
ni**er and it's tough being a bad ni**er."
I don't react to a tragic happening any more. I took so many bad things
as a kid and some people think I don't care about anything. It's just too
hard for me to get emotional. I can't cry no more."
"I'm on the Zoloft [an antidepressant] to keep from killing y'all."
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