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Teddy Atlas

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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.

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.

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

So great that maybe God made you great and you're too great for your own good. And I don't know, it took me to these stupid, dangerous places. Dangerous for me, but dangerous for other people too, because I got to the point where I was doing robberies on the street. I was fighting everybody. And you know what the most dangerous part about it was?

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

So great that maybe God made you great and you're too great for your own good. And I don't know, it took me to these stupid, dangerous places. Dangerous for me, but dangerous for other people too, because I got to the point where I was doing robberies on the street. I was fighting everybody. And you know what the most dangerous part about it was?

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

So great that maybe God made you great and you're too great for your own good. And I don't know, it took me to these stupid, dangerous places. Dangerous for me, but dangerous for other people too, because I got to the point where I was doing robberies on the street. I was fighting everybody. And you know what the most dangerous part about it was?

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

And I came to this realization on my own, all by myself. I figured out, I was really, as they, you know, these kids from the project, some of them, they got nothing. First of all, I learned, you don't have to be poor to be poor. You don't have to be deprived of certain things to be deprived. Because at least to think you're deprived.

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

And I came to this realization on my own, all by myself. I figured out, I was really, as they, you know, these kids from the project, some of them, they got nothing. First of all, I learned, you don't have to be poor to be poor. You don't have to be deprived of certain things to be deprived. Because at least to think you're deprived.

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

And I came to this realization on my own, all by myself. I figured out, I was really, as they, you know, these kids from the project, some of them, they got nothing. First of all, I learned, you don't have to be poor to be poor. You don't have to be deprived of certain things to be deprived. Because at least to think you're deprived.

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

And I was poor in a way that I didn't have the only thing I wanted to have, him. So here I am where... I'm out there doing these things, and what made me more, I was more dangerous than some of these psychopaths. Well, I was a psychopath too, I guess, the way I was behaving. But some of these psychopaths that really had nothing, you know, really would, you know, they obviously would kill you.

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

And I was poor in a way that I didn't have the only thing I wanted to have, him. So here I am where... I'm out there doing these things, and what made me more, I was more dangerous than some of these psychopaths. Well, I was a psychopath too, I guess, the way I was behaving. But some of these psychopaths that really had nothing, you know, really would, you know, they obviously would kill you.

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

And I was poor in a way that I didn't have the only thing I wanted to have, him. So here I am where... I'm out there doing these things, and what made me more, I was more dangerous than some of these psychopaths. Well, I was a psychopath too, I guess, the way I was behaving. But some of these psychopaths that really had nothing, you know, really would, you know, they obviously would kill you.

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

I was dangerous almost in the same way, but for a different reason. I know it's ridiculous what I'm about to tell you, but I figured it out. because I felt it. I thought I was on a righteous path. I thought I had a right. Because it was gonna get me my father back. Why? Why? I mean, you're a scientist, you couldn't figure this one out.

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

I was dangerous almost in the same way, but for a different reason. I know it's ridiculous what I'm about to tell you, but I figured it out. because I felt it. I thought I was on a righteous path. I thought I had a right. Because it was gonna get me my father back. Why? Why? I mean, you're a scientist, you couldn't figure this one out.

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

I was dangerous almost in the same way, but for a different reason. I know it's ridiculous what I'm about to tell you, but I figured it out. because I felt it. I thought I was on a righteous path. I thought I had a right. Because it was gonna get me my father back. Why? Why? I mean, you're a scientist, you couldn't figure this one out.

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

Because all the people that had him were injured people, fractured people, screwed up people in some ways, but hurt, damaged people. So if I get damaged, I'll get them. So I was on a crusade, really, a righteous crusade where I thought it was okay. I had permission. I had permission to do these terrible things, quite frankly, and to fight everyone.

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

Because all the people that had him were injured people, fractured people, screwed up people in some ways, but hurt, damaged people. So if I get damaged, I'll get them. So I was on a crusade, really, a righteous crusade where I thought it was okay. I had permission. I had permission to do these terrible things, quite frankly, and to fight everyone.

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

Because all the people that had him were injured people, fractured people, screwed up people in some ways, but hurt, damaged people. So if I get damaged, I'll get them. So I was on a crusade, really, a righteous crusade where I thought it was okay. I had permission. I had permission to do these terrible things, quite frankly, and to fight everyone.

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

And then it came almost to a crash, doing all that, winding up in Rikers Island like an idiot. Not understanding the damage I did to this poor man that, you know, he was a great doctor, and he's got to see his son and hear about, you know what I mean? Like, God.

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

And then it came almost to a crash, doing all that, winding up in Rikers Island like an idiot. Not understanding the damage I did to this poor man that, you know, he was a great doctor, and he's got to see his son and hear about, you know what I mean? Like, God.

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

And then it came almost to a crash, doing all that, winding up in Rikers Island like an idiot. Not understanding the damage I did to this poor man that, you know, he was a great doctor, and he's got to see his son and hear about, you know what I mean? Like, God.