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Teddy Atlas

👤 Speaker
927 total appearances

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

I don't want to have that fear. You know, whether I'm going down there or whether I'm going up there. You know, I laugh because I was around guys years ago that used to, when we'd talk about that, you know, injustice, And we get a kick out of this one guy who's been around the block a few times. When he say, hey, Teddy, I ain't worried about that. I got friends in both places. That's a good line.

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

Yeah. And I thought it was good. Listen, Mike Tyson, you want me to say he was a great fighter? Then you want me to betray what I really, you know what I mean? You want me to do that? I ain't doing it for, listen, I could do it to be a bigger Teddy Atlas and I know it would work for me. I know it would do great promotional work for me. I know it would make me more popular in certain areas.

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

Yeah. And I thought it was good. Listen, Mike Tyson, you want me to say he was a great fighter? Then you want me to betray what I really, you know what I mean? You want me to do that? I ain't doing it for, listen, I could do it to be a bigger Teddy Atlas and I know it would work for me. I know it would do great promotional work for me. I know it would make me more popular in certain areas.

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

Yeah. And I thought it was good. Listen, Mike Tyson, you want me to say he was a great fighter? Then you want me to betray what I really, you know what I mean? You want me to do that? I ain't doing it for, listen, I could do it to be a bigger Teddy Atlas and I know it would work for me. I know it would do great promotional work for me. I know it would make me more popular in certain areas.

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

I know it. I'm not that dumb. Not that dumb. But I also know what else it would do to me. And I don't want it to do that to me. I think he was a great talent. I think maybe the night with Michael Spinks, maybe he could have been that fighter. But he didn't never really get tested. But he might have been ready no matter what to be tested that night. That's how good he was.

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

I know it. I'm not that dumb. Not that dumb. But I also know what else it would do to me. And I don't want it to do that to me. I think he was a great talent. I think maybe the night with Michael Spinks, maybe he could have been that fighter. But he didn't never really get tested. But he might have been ready no matter what to be tested that night. That's how good he was.

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

I know it. I'm not that dumb. Not that dumb. But I also know what else it would do to me. And I don't want it to do that to me. I think he was a great talent. I think maybe the night with Michael Spinks, maybe he could have been that fighter. But he didn't never really get tested. But he might have been ready no matter what to be tested that night. That's how good he was.

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

Even though he was a guy who used to be a light heavyweight. I get it. But he was still a guy who beat Larry Holmes, who still had something left. Michael Spinks. And a great puncher. And an Olympic gold medalist. And a special fighter. One of the great light heavyweights of all time. You know what Mike Tyson was? He was a meteor.

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

Even though he was a guy who used to be a light heavyweight. I get it. But he was still a guy who beat Larry Holmes, who still had something left. Michael Spinks. And a great puncher. And an Olympic gold medalist. And a special fighter. One of the great light heavyweights of all time. You know what Mike Tyson was? He was a meteor.

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

Even though he was a guy who used to be a light heavyweight. I get it. But he was still a guy who beat Larry Holmes, who still had something left. Michael Spinks. And a great puncher. And an Olympic gold medalist. And a special fighter. One of the great light heavyweights of all time. You know what Mike Tyson was? He was a meteor.

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

He was a meteor that struck across, and not too many meteors, and we still talk about him. And unlike Halley's Comet, he came back, and he's walking around, and he has become greater after his career, more loved, more beloved, more awed, and he's been forgiven. He found the fountain of forgiveness. I don't know. I wish I could find that.

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

He was a meteor that struck across, and not too many meteors, and we still talk about him. And unlike Halley's Comet, he came back, and he's walking around, and he has become greater after his career, more loved, more beloved, more awed, and he's been forgiven. He found the fountain of forgiveness. I don't know. I wish I could find that.

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

He was a meteor that struck across, and not too many meteors, and we still talk about him. And unlike Halley's Comet, he came back, and he's walking around, and he has become greater after his career, more loved, more beloved, more awed, and he's been forgiven. He found the fountain of forgiveness. I don't know. I wish I could find that.

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

where he has been forgotten for all his shortcomings, all the things that he may have done, may not have done. We don't know. Only him and God know. But he's been forgiven of all that, and he's been not only forgiven, he's rised above it and above that and been brought above that. He's been brought to the pyramids of the greatest athletes in the world.

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

where he has been forgotten for all his shortcomings, all the things that he may have done, may not have done. We don't know. Only him and God know. But he's been forgiven of all that, and he's been not only forgiven, he's rised above it and above that and been brought above that. He's been brought to the pyramids of the greatest athletes in the world.

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

where he has been forgotten for all his shortcomings, all the things that he may have done, may not have done. We don't know. Only him and God know. But he's been forgiven of all that, and he's been not only forgiven, he's rised above it and above that and been brought above that. He's been brought to the pyramids of the greatest athletes in the world.

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

And in every way, in every way, as a person, as a fighter, as a historian, as a figure, as a celebrity.

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

And in every way, in every way, as a person, as a fighter, as a historian, as a figure, as a celebrity.

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

And in every way, in every way, as a person, as a fighter, as a historian, as a figure, as a celebrity.

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

Even a philosopher.