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

- Mike Tyson

I think the average person thinks I'm a nut and I deserve whatever happens to me.

- Mike Tyson

People are going to say what they say. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people.

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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.

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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.

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.

- Mike Tyson

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.

- Mike Tyson

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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.

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson

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

- Mike Tyson