When I was younger, I used to think that Mike Tyson was the greatest thing since sliced bread. I have since grown out of that, and quoted below are a few reasons why. I don’t know if it was his time in the slammer or what, but he is one crazy guy now. With all the cash he had, and the fame that came along with it, MT could have lived out a wonderful retirement. But like a lot of superstars, he will probably live out the rest of his life mooching off of everyone else.
On Lennox Lewis
“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!”
“My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.”
“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.”
“[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”
On Evander Holyfield
“You got nothing coming, man. I’m going to enjoy this fight.”
After biting Holyfield he said, “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 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.”
On Razor Ruddock
“You’re sweet. I’m going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I’m gonna make you my girlfriend.”
On Tyrell Biggs
Tyson on Tyrell Biggs’ complaining to him about low blows “Low blows? Low blows? Huh! Motherf**ker you’re fittin’ to die!”
“He was screaming like my wife.”
“I could have knocked him out in the third round but I wanted to do it slowly, so he would remember this night for a long time.”
On His Wife
“I paid a worker at New York’s zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback’s snotbox! He declined.”
“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.”