"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should"
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“How I feel about people and society” frames alienation as a habit of mind. Tyson isn’t describing a single grievance; he’s describing a default setting: suspicion, resentment, maybe contempt. For an athlete whose career was defined by dominance and unpredictability, that’s a quietly radical shift. It hints at the cost of celebrity as a constant defensive posture: when everyone is watching, you learn to assume the worst, and that assumption starts to feel like identity.
The line that cuts deepest is “the way I should.” That phrase smuggles in a whole moral architecture: expectations, norms, the idea of a correct way to belong. It’s also where Tyson’s biography hums underneath the words - a man lifted out of poverty into fame, then repeatedly pushed into tabloid exile, trying to negotiate whether “society” is a club he’s failed to enter or a system that only ever had room for him as a headline.
The intent feels less like self-pity than a plea for recalibration: not forgiveness as PR, but the harder thing - learning how to be ordinary when your life has never been allowed to be.
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| Topic | Loneliness |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Tyson, Mike. (2026, January 18). I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-bad-about-my-outlook-how-i-feel-about-888/
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Tyson, Mike. "I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should." FixQuotes. January 18, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-bad-about-my-outlook-how-i-feel-about-888/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should." FixQuotes, 18 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-bad-about-my-outlook-how-i-feel-about-888/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.




