Mike Tyson

“I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.”

“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.”

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

“When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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'm going to gut you like a fish.”

“I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.”

“I'm a historian, and that freaks me out.”

“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.”

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

“I love to hit people. I love to.”

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

“I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.”