Undisputed Truth Quotes

“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“a man who was friendly with everyone was an enemy to himself.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“You think you know the difference between a hero and a coward, Mike? Well, there is no difference between a hero and a coward in what they feel. It’s what they do that makes them different. The hero and the coward feel exactly the same but you have to have the discipline to do what a hero does and to keep yourself from doing what the coward does.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“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.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Your mind is not your friend, Mike. I hope you know that. You have to fight with your mind, control it, put it in its place. You have to control your emotions. Fatigue in the ring is ninety percent psychological. It’s just the excuse of a man who wants to quit.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“The boxing’s the easy part. When you get into the ring to fight, that’s the vacation. But when you get in the gym, you have to do things over and over till you’re sore and deep in your mind you say, ‘I don’t want to do this anymore,’ I push that out of my mind.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“One day Cus came to me. “You know, Camille really wants you to do your chores. I could care less if you did, but you should do them because it will make you a better boxer.” “How’s taking out the trash going to make me a better boxer?” I scoffed. “Because doing something you hate to do like you love it is good conditioning for someone aspiring towards greatness.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Confidence was everything. But in order to possess that confidence, you had to test yourself and put yourself on the line. It doesn’t come from osmosis, out of the air. It comes from consistently going over the visualization in your mind to help you develop the confidence that you want to possess.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“MIKE WOULD LIKE TO THANK: Cus D’Amato, my mentor, friend, and general. Because of you, my life has reached heights I could never have imagined. Without you, I don’t know where I would be today. My gratitude to you is immeasurable.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you. Like a snowball on a hill, you can pick it up and throw it or do anything you want with it before it starts rolling down, but once it rolls down and gets so big, it’ll crush you to death. So one must never allow fear to develop and build up without having control over it, because if you don’t you won’t be able to achieve your objective or save your life. “Consider”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“God is not going to send someone to hell for my mistakes. So God and I have to deal with my own salvation.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“He was very vindictive and always out for revenge. He couldn’t live without enemies, so he created them.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Burning cocaine is the worst smell in the world. It smells like burning plastic and rat poison combined. A friend of mine once told me, that when you want to know something about anything, put some fire under it. The fire brings out everything. You want to know something about a motherfucker? Put some fire under his ass. Well, when you put some fire under that cocaine, you know what it's made out of.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“In her book, Robin implied that we hadn’t slept together, but I actually nailed her the first or second night when she came to my hotel. Instead she claimed that we strolled through the mall and played with puppies at pet shops for hours. Can you see me in a motherfucking mall, the heavyweight champ of the world? What the fuck am I doing in a mall?”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Freedom is a very dangerous thing. We ration it very closely.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“I had been reading Nietzsche and thought I was a Superman. I could barely spell my name but I was a Superman.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great. My style was impetuous, my defenses were impregnable, and I was ferocious.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“People who are only interested in having fun cannot accomplish anything.” I thought I was stronger than people who were weak and partying.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Well, I know what I am, and that’s what counts more than anything else, because the people don’t know what I go through. They think I’m born this way. They don’t know what it took to get this way.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“No matter what anyone says, no matter the excuse or explanation, whatever a person does in the end is what he intended to do all along.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Don’t use that word ‘can’t.’ You can’t say ‘can’t.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“Tyson came in with a lot of excess baggage. The press has vilified him. Not a day goes by that the press doesn’t bring up his faults. This is not the Tyson I know. The Tyson I know is a sensitive, thoughtful, caring man. He may be terrifying in the ring, but that ends when he leaves the ring.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“There are animals disguised as human beings out here, you are not sophisticated enough to decipher the two."
Cus D'Amato”
― mike tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Some students would make fun of me, but nobody fucked with me.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

“What if I failed and lost? I had been in a million fights on the streets”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“Sometimes I’d give my mother a hundred bucks and she wouldn’t pay me back. She didn’t respect me like that. I’d say, “You owe me some money, Ma.” And she’d just say, “You owe me your life, boy. I’m not paying you back.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth

“When you've never had anything, you tend to want to accumulate a lot when you can. But as you get older, you realize that life is not about accumulation, life is about loss. The older you get, the more loss you experience. We lose our hair, we lose our teeth, we lose our loved ones. Hopefully we learn to be strong from those losses and we can pass on our wisdom to the people we care about.”
― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth