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Teddy Atlas

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927 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And then he turned to him, he goes, you want to come live with us, young man? You want to be a fighter? Yeah. Yes. Even that, Cus said to me later, what do you think about that? I said, The way he said yes. Yeah, the way he said yes. Yes, sir. He said, what do you think about that? And we're talking. I said, ain't going to be that polite in a little while down the road.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Again, he knew that that's what he felt that he needed to project himself as, to present himself as, to get to where he wanted to get to. He goes, yeah. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Again, he knew that that's what he felt that he needed to project himself as, to present himself as, to get to where he wanted to get to. He goes, yeah. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Again, he knew that that's what he felt that he needed to project himself as, to present himself as, to get to where he wanted to get to. He goes, yeah. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

No. Again, the easiest answer would be yes. Teddy Ellis. Genius. Wow. Wow. Teddy, wow. No, no. No. No. But, again, it was my job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

No. Again, the easiest answer would be yes. Teddy Ellis. Genius. Wow. Wow. Teddy, wow. No, no. No. No. But, again, it was my job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

No. Again, the easiest answer would be yes. Teddy Ellis. Genius. Wow. Wow. Teddy, wow. No, no. No. No. But, again, it was my job.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And I just... My job, it was simple, simpler than Cuss's. Cuss knew too much. I knew nothing. I just knew rudiments of boxing. I knew what it took to be a fighter and how to execute it, the steps of executing it. So I took those steps. The rest of it, you get blurred by those other things. I wasn't blurred by those other things. It was just get him in the gym.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And I just... My job, it was simple, simpler than Cuss's. Cuss knew too much. I knew nothing. I just knew rudiments of boxing. I knew what it took to be a fighter and how to execute it, the steps of executing it. So I took those steps. The rest of it, you get blurred by those other things. I wasn't blurred by those other things. It was just get him in the gym.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And I just... My job, it was simple, simpler than Cuss's. Cuss knew too much. I knew nothing. I just knew rudiments of boxing. I knew what it took to be a fighter and how to execute it, the steps of executing it. So I took those steps. The rest of it, you get blurred by those other things. I wasn't blurred by those other things. It was just get him in the gym.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

make them mentally stronger, make them face things, and teach them how to slip punches and create holes and fill those freaking holes with devastating punches. And what are you going to do? I'm going to teach them to fill holes and fill them with punches with bad intentions. And that became the moniker. And then Tyson would say that. I'm throwing punches with bad intentions. Yes, you are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

make them mentally stronger, make them face things, and teach them how to slip punches and create holes and fill those freaking holes with devastating punches. And what are you going to do? I'm going to teach them to fill holes and fill them with punches with bad intentions. And that became the moniker. And then Tyson would say that. I'm throwing punches with bad intentions. Yes, you are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

make them mentally stronger, make them face things, and teach them how to slip punches and create holes and fill those freaking holes with devastating punches. And what are you going to do? I'm going to teach them to fill holes and fill them with punches with bad intentions. And that became the moniker. And then Tyson would say that. I'm throwing punches with bad intentions. Yes, you are.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And, you know...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And, you know...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

And, you know...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

to make him face things. Make him face where he's lying to himself, where he's submitting. We start this conversation with submission. Submit less. Submit less. Submit less every day. Submit less. Because I only come to the gym once in a while. And if I had him sparring, he would come because that was his project. That was the heavyweight. Now he came, you know, and put life in Cuss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

to make him face things. Make him face where he's lying to himself, where he's submitting. We start this conversation with submission. Submit less. Submit less. Submit less every day. Submit less. Because I only come to the gym once in a while. And if I had him sparring, he would come because that was his project. That was the heavyweight. Now he came, you know, and put life in Cuss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

to make him face things. Make him face where he's lying to himself, where he's submitting. We start this conversation with submission. Submit less. Submit less. Submit less every day. Submit less. Because I only come to the gym once in a while. And if I had him sparring, he would come because that was his project. That was the heavyweight. Now he came, you know, and put life in Cuss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness

Cuss had life. He was losing a little life, but that made the light bulb bright again. It did. And it was great to see. I felt proud of that. I felt connected to that. And that's why when it all went bad and Cuss took the side, the only side he could take, the side of the next heavyweight champion of the world, but he left me, his partner, the young master. And of the second time I get portrayed.