'That’s how I look at my life, I don’t even exist, but I make a lot of noise' Once known as the baddest man on the planet, MikeTyson has morphed into a cultural icon. In this frank conversation he reveals a side of himself we haven’t seen much of before
Tyson, who is well known for his love of pigeons, dropped in to the home of pigeon fancier Horace Watts while on route to Birmingham, England, for a hotel dinner boxing event. He stepped into the public limelight as boxing’s brutal destroyer, who in 1986 became, at a precocious 20, the youngest heavyweight champion ever. He scared tough, experienced heavyweights out of their shorts, before he inevitably knocked them out of them.
Somewhere along the line he reemerged into the sunlight as a joyous, beloved personality. There was his charismatic performance in the firstmovie . He was a joke, but it was a comedy and he was in on the joke. From there he started popping up in other cultural touchstones, and showed a winning, softer personality in interviews.
the tree is more beautiful. Everything looks better, the picture is more beautiful, everything’s more loving, you know? Listen, we’re all animals, we’re born animals and society taught us to be human beings and — just like animals, which we are — some get domesticated sooner than others, and some take a little longer to get domesticated. Some of us are ahead of each other, some are not. Some of us are lacking, but we’re trying, but some of us do have our animal instincts.
Normal people that have to fight don’t even want to look at any fighting and my trainer, Cus D’amato, thought something was wrong with me. He said, “you want to watch a fight before you…” [] I mean, I just have to be into it, that’s who I am, got to be a part of my flesh, my brain, my mind.
Yeah? That’s interesting you say that because sometimes I say to myself, when I’m being selfish, I say to myself, you don’t care about this life but you make so many people… so many other people happy, you know? I mean I think that’s why sometimes I’d be saying “screw Mike Tyson”, jump off the building, but so many other people go: “hey, Mike Tyson.” Out of all the things I’ve experienced in life, that never clicked to me that I’m somebody, I don’t even like to think of it.
As I was saying before, we live in a dual universe, black, white, good, bad, God, Devil. We should always search to be in the middle because if you’re in the middle, you can see everything, have a little bit of everything. Some people say we have a seed of God, some others say that we are actually Gods in this life, what do you think?
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