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.

I’m scared every time I go into the ring, but it’s how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, ‘Let’s go.’

I’m just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me?

I paid a worker at New York’s zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin [Tyson’s wife]. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all...

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

I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.

[After biting Evander Holyfield] 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 was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

and I’d like to think it was because of environmental reasons, but I don’t really believe that.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle.

It’s good to know how to read, but it’s dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you’re reading.

Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.

You can’t stay married in a situation where you are afraid to go to sleep in case your wife might cut your throat.

I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won’t say anything a dignified man won’t say.

When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again.

[Tyson didn’t either. It was not the result of some exchange but simply a straight shot at an unprotected chin. It happened so quickly that Tyson was surprised to see Botha go down.] I thought...

You got nothing coming, man. I’m going to enjoy this fight [against Evander Holyfield].

I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

Shoot, I was desperate. I wanted to win.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn’t talk much. I never met him.

You’re smart too late and old too soon. I just got caught up in that suction cup. I feel like Rip Van Winkle right now.

I just want to conquer people and their souls.

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.

When you see me smash somebody’s skull, you enjoy it.

[Tyson and Ruddock wasted no time testing each other. Before the opening bell Ruddock bounced around the ring, seemingly eager to begin, while Tyson eyed his foe with a small smile.] I don’t try to...

I’ll go back and take what the people owe me.

I’m a historian, and that freaks me out.

Even then I watched him, … I knew he was a game champion and that he wasn’t going to go out like a dog. He went out fighting. Even after that last knockdown he was...

Every time there’s a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing.

One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight.

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...

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 just look around and say, I’m a mess. I don’t know why I do things.

That’s what people respect, the fact that I wasn’t a chump that laid on his back and gave up.

I don’t have the guts to stay in this sport anymore.

Sometimes I feel like everyone hates me.

I’m a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me.

He [Tyrell Biggs] was screaming like my wife.

Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.