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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

He told me about the winter that came and destroyed the Germans. Yeah. And the Soviets were tougher. You got an A. And the Soviets were tougher than the Germans. And the Germans picked on the wrong opponent.

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

I was already in the boxing business. I didn't even know it. I didn't even know it. Matchmaking, very important. They mismatched. They made a mistake with picking the opponent. And so when we would be driving in the car, my father would be in a trance. And Dad... He wasn't ignoring me at all. He was just with his thoughts. He was wherever. He wasn't even hearing the radio no more.

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

I was already in the boxing business. I didn't even know it. I didn't even know it. Matchmaking, very important. They mismatched. They made a mistake with picking the opponent. And so when we would be driving in the car, my father would be in a trance. And Dad... He wasn't ignoring me at all. He was just with his thoughts. He was wherever. He wasn't even hearing the radio no more.

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

I was already in the boxing business. I didn't even know it. I didn't even know it. Matchmaking, very important. They mismatched. They made a mistake with picking the opponent. And so when we would be driving in the car, my father would be in a trance. And Dad... He wasn't ignoring me at all. He was just with his thoughts. He was wherever. He wasn't even hearing the radio no more.

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

I always wondered where he was. I did. So I asked him one day and just, so we're driving. I said, I want to know. So I said, dad, what do you think when you're basically in this place that I know you're somewhere? What do you, what do you, where are you? What do you see? I actually said, what do you see? And he said to me, I see what could be. I see what could be. And I'm like, oh, All right.

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

I always wondered where he was. I did. So I asked him one day and just, so we're driving. I said, I want to know. So I said, dad, what do you think when you're basically in this place that I know you're somewhere? What do you, what do you, where are you? What do you see? I actually said, what do you see? And he said to me, I see what could be. I see what could be. And I'm like, oh, All right.

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

I always wondered where he was. I did. So I asked him one day and just, so we're driving. I said, I want to know. So I said, dad, what do you think when you're basically in this place that I know you're somewhere? What do you, what do you, where are you? What do you see? I actually said, what do you see? And he said to me, I see what could be. I see what could be. And I'm like, oh, All right.

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

When it saved me.

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

When it saved me.

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

When it saved me.

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

I was a stupid, violent kid that was angry. Not exactly know why I was angry. I'd fit in real good in today's society because there's a lot of angry kids out there that I don't think they know why they're angry. I was just out there getting in fights, and I got this stupid thing from that.

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

I was a stupid, violent kid that was angry. Not exactly know why I was angry. I'd fit in real good in today's society because there's a lot of angry kids out there that I don't think they know why they're angry. I was just out there getting in fights, and I got this stupid thing from that.

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

I was a stupid, violent kid that was angry. Not exactly know why I was angry. I'd fit in real good in today's society because there's a lot of angry kids out there that I don't think they know why they're angry. I was just out there getting in fights, and I got this stupid thing from that.

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

I was just running around doing stupid things, bad things. I hurt people, some people physically, but I hurt my family. You know, that's BS. You only hurt yourself. That's a good way of alibying it. But at some point, the truth usually finds its way. I'd like it to look like I was just hurting myself, but it wasn't, obviously.

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

I was just running around doing stupid things, bad things. I hurt people, some people physically, but I hurt my family. You know, that's BS. You only hurt yourself. That's a good way of alibying it. But at some point, the truth usually finds its way. I'd like it to look like I was just hurting myself, but it wasn't, obviously.

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

I was just running around doing stupid things, bad things. I hurt people, some people physically, but I hurt my family. You know, that's BS. You only hurt yourself. That's a good way of alibying it. But at some point, the truth usually finds its way. I'd like it to look like I was just hurting myself, but it wasn't, obviously.

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

So I was just out on the streets with kids that didn't grow up in the neighborhood I grew up. I grew up in a neighborhood where a father was a doctor. And I walked down the street. The funny thing was down the hill was a very tough neighborhood called Stapleton. And most of the people down there on the corners wished they could get up the hill. And I wished I could get down the hill.

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

So I was just out on the streets with kids that didn't grow up in the neighborhood I grew up. I grew up in a neighborhood where a father was a doctor. And I walked down the street. The funny thing was down the hill was a very tough neighborhood called Stapleton. And most of the people down there on the corners wished they could get up the hill. And I wished I could get down the hill.

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

So I was just out on the streets with kids that didn't grow up in the neighborhood I grew up. I grew up in a neighborhood where a father was a doctor. And I walked down the street. The funny thing was down the hill was a very tough neighborhood called Stapleton. And most of the people down there on the corners wished they could get up the hill. And I wished I could get down the hill.

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

So I went down the hill. And I hung out with all these friends that became lifelong friends. And I gravitated to that because I figured out later a little bit, but I wanted family. We were disjointed family. My father was a doctor. He didn't have time for nothing but being a doctor. I think when you're great at something, you sacrifice something too. When you're really great at something.