I don’t try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That’s nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.

I’m going to gut you like a fish.

I’m not Mother Teresa, but I’m not Charles Manson, either.

When you’re a great finisher, you’ll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. So was Ray Robinson. Ray Leonard. They got a man in trouble and they threw everything they had at him. Bring...

Everybody’s got plans…until they get hit.

I ain’t the same person I was when I bit that guy’s ear off.

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.

You [Razor Ruddock] are sweet. I’m going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I’m gonna make you my girlfriend.

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.

I know I’m going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him [Lennox Lewis].

gut like a fish.

I’m not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I’m right.

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!

I’m in trouble because I’m normal and slightly arrogant. A lot of people don’t like themselves and I happen to be totally in love with myself.

I can inspire people on how to use money, how to get economically powerful.

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

[Tyson finally struck back when an older boy tried to steal one of the pigeons he was raising.] I don’t know what possessed me to fight, but it was my first fight and I kicked...

I look forward to coming back again. I’ve lost more than I’ve won in life, so, believe me, I’m pretty much understanding of the situation and I can deal with it. I can deal with...

I know why they don’t like me because they want the money I have.

My objective is to be the ultimate professional.

Standing in front of Chairman Mao’s remains, I felt really insignificant. To have the chance to visit the memorial hall is a great honor for me.

I’m on the Zoloft to keep me from killing y’all.

Now I’m here. Imagine if I’d kept screwing around those six years. I’d have been in the same place I was. In jail. Or dead. One of those.

Smart too late and old too soon, … This is just my ending.

I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

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...

I haven’t been with a woman in nine months.

I think I’ll take a bath in his blood.

I could have knocked him [Tyrell Biggs] out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

I’m the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don’t believe it, check the cash register.

I’m not going to keep boxing. It’s part of my past and now I want to live my life.

[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...

I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.

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.

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.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

It was like a bleeping mule kick.

I’m just happy I’m not a phony.

I’ve lived places these guys can’t defecate in.

I feel like Rip Van Winkle.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn’t have a cent.

I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I’ll never be part of society the way I should.

The only thing I do is just pray for inspiration, for a way of thinking, because I don’t have any particular goal in sight.

[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.

When I’d get up in the morning, he’d make me breakfast. Now he’s not around anymore. God. I’m doing to do well, but when I come down to it, who really cares? I like doing...

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.