Fighting is not physical, fighting is spiritual. It's the determination and the will in the guy. —Mike Tyson

Happiness is fleeting, just like sadness. It's all fleeting. But we have to remember in that state of happiness or sadness that it's fleeting, because if we don't we can make bad decisions during that time. —Mike Tyson

Happiness is fleeting, just like sadness. It's all fleeting. But we have to remember in that state of happiness or sadness that it's fleeting, because if we don't we can make bad decisions during that time.
 —Mike Tyson

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average. —Mike Tyson

I refuse to let adversity allow me to be average.
—Mike Tyson

Came. Saw. Conquered. Got conquered. Bounced back. —Mike Tyson

 Came. Saw. Conquered. Got conquered. Bounced back.
—Mike Tyson

We're all going to have tests in our life...We never know when that test comes, but we know we have to be prepared for it. We're all going to be tested. The dark energy is going to knock on all of our doors. —Mike Tyson

"Most fighters are the most humble people in the world because they've gotten their ass kicked before." —Mike Tyson

"Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it." —Mike Tyson

"Whatever you want, especially when you're striving to be the best in the world or something, there will always by disappointments, and you can't be emotionally tied to them because they'll break your spirit." —Mike Tyson

"Unfortunately, sometimes you can't have fun accomplishing your goals. Sometimes people don't have the determination, the will, and the steadfastness, the tenacity, they give in under the slightest struggle. Success in general is all about sacrifice." —Mike Tyson

"Things happen, we all have disappointments, but we can't let these things stop our lives, we have to go on." —Mike Tyson

"In order for me to achieve...I had to regard myself greater than what I was. In other words I had to fake it until I make it." -Mike Tyson

“Confidence breeds success and success breeds confidence…Confidence applied properly surpasses genius.” —Mike Tyson

"In order to be great you have to fail greatly as well. It's all about how you handle your failures." -Mike Tyson

"Every win, regardless a good or bad one, gives you more confidence." -Mike Tyson

“We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight” -Mike Tyson

Discipline is doing what you hate to do,but nonetheless doing it like you love it. -Mike Tyson

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. -Mike Tyson

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them. -Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson on friends and enemies

 

Mike Tyson on friends and enemies:

"Everybody you fight is not your enemy and everybody that helps you is not your friend"

Mike Tyson, Roy Nelson and Mario Balotelli on doing their jobs

Roy Nelson was once asked what he did to pump himself up for a fight, and he said he didn't need to do that because it's his job. Just like one doesn't need to pump themselves up to go to work every morning, he feels the same way about fighting.

That attitude of just doing your job, and looking at an athletic competition as such, is something that can take the negative stress away from the situation. It's also something that just allows one to let the greatness they've trained for flow out of them easily. Like Italian footballer Mario Balotelli, who doesn't celebrate, because there's no point in celebrating doing your job:
“I don’t celebrate because I’m only doing my job. When a postman delivers letters, does he celebrate?”

Baolotelli just expects that foot to go into the top corner when he kicks it.

Mike Tyson, one of the great boxers of all time, had a similar attitude as seen in this video on Jim Rome's how. Tyson was inspired by his trainer Cus D'Amato, who felt it was ridiculous to celebrate because winning and achieving your goal was what you expected to do. It shouldn't be a surprise. That's not to say it's bad to celebrate your win or to not be happy, but in general, having a work-man-like attitude and treating the victory as just a part of the job which you expected to happen, can make that climb to the top seem like it's one that is out of reach; rather it's something you expect to occur.

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