Discussing the irrelevance of it all during all you can eat Japanese (this place beside RC) the late Cornsey1011121314 and Nicky, we slightly brushed the topic "Mike Tyson", the poet, for whatever reason (punching people in the face if I was not mistaken).

Getting back home I couldn't resist going to the worlds best library online (http://www.rotten.com/library/). I tried to find some quotes of the granvizir of the rings...And hopefully, there were many nuggets of wisdom there.

I like Mike's outlook of life, this no-bs approach...It might be harsh, but ut is true. Crude. Raw. Cristaline.

Mike.

Keep on reading, fellas:

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

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

"Every shot was thrown with bad intentions. I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down."

"Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent. Do you know what I do sometimes? Put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters."

"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."

"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."

"A lot of young women don't know what they're getting themselves into. A lot of them think it's fun, a game. . . . But they truly don't know what they're into when they lock themselves into a room and engage in sex with a man who knows how to handle a woman."

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

My favourite one:

"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."

"I could sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."

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

"It's no doubt I am going to win this fight and I feel confident about winning this fight. I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk anymore ... Unless you want to, you know."

"I wish that you guys had children so I could kick them in the **** head or stomp on their testicles so you could feel my pain because that's the pain I have waking up every day."

"There's no one perfect. We're always gonna do that. Jimmy Swaggart is lascivious, Mike Tyson is lascivious -- but we're not criminally, at least I'm not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate more than other people -- it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get head without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?"

"I feel like sometimes that I was born, that I'm not meant for this society because everyone here is a **** hypocrite. Everybody says they believe in God but they don't do God's work. Everybody counteracts what God is really about. If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me ... I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss ... why you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even ... They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again."

"I've got nowhere to live. I've been crashing with friends, literally sleeping in shelters. Unsavoury characters are giving me money and I'm taking it. I need it. The drug dealers, they sympathise with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character... I know I was a tough, bad-ass talking fighter, but I ain't no mob figure. I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues. I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off."

People can say whatever they want about Mike Tyson. But he is one original f***, and that puts him ahead of most of mankind.

He's just being himself and that should be respected too, although I disagree with his methods he still is a person

Nice post. I don't know if I'd really call Tyson a poet, but his philosophy is definitely interesting.
Goes to show, that terrible people can have impressive qualities none-the-less. Tyson's best quality may be his honesty, (not his honesty towards us, but rather towards himself).

Still I don't think I'd ever want to meet him.

Perhaps the best one so far:

On America

"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."

Mike is one heck of a character. He ReminD me of mE.

The whiTe mediA in America has been scARed of mike for a long timE. they would do anything to destroy him and they did. no one could stand up to that pressure. look at brad pitt crying cause the papparazi takes his picture, and that is nothing compared to the media abuse tyson has been through.

although let's face it, mike seldom does himself any favours. but that is why he is mike. to do favours to yourself sometimes you need to lie to yourself and repress certain feelings, mike doesn't give a sh1t about that.

Bump.