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Teddy Atlas

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“Yeah, in the moment, you're right, 100% because some things hurt for a long time afterwards. And something like regret. Regret is the worst thing in the world because it's a solitary sentence. And”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You couldn't be great without fear Fear allows Most important word for me in this whole, you know, conversation, right? Neighborhood would be selfishness. It allows you to be for a moment less selfish. One of the things I learned, I guess, partly on my own. Everyone thinks my greatest teacher was cuss. He was a great teacher. My greatest teacher was my father, the one who never talked. And I realized one of the things to be better towards great. If you can be Submit less than we submit. See, one of the things that I'm afraid of, one of the things I was always quitting. My business, it's kind of not a good thing.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Live in a taboo society where that word to a certain extent is taboo because it invokes weakness. You know, we, uh, We are just layers of what we saw and learned since we were kids. We all are. We're products of those layers. I learned that on my own help. At the end of the day, People will find their way of avoiding that term. So they use the word anxiety. They use the word, you know, butterflies. Apprehension, you know, a million different words. I find all those other words to be cousins of fear. And fear, fear causes a lot of things in life. It causes a lot of problems and it also solves a lot of problems. Without it, we couldn't be great. We are great, if we ever have a chance to be great. Or at least to aspire to be great.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He gave you a quote and he drilled it into my head. I became his guy, you know. He loved me I He said to me. Teddy. No matter what a man says, is what he does in the end that he intended to do all along. That's what I learned from Most of it is BS. A lot of people. Say things, you just have to give him a minute to Let them show you eventually. They really meant I always learn from him that Everyone's afraid This way you say there was another great saying you'll get kicked out of this. Anyone who's in a situation where fear should be prevalent, where fear is actually necessary to survive the situation, anyone who says that they're not afraid, they're one of two things. They're either a liar or they should go to a doctor, find out what the freak's wrong with them. He was right about that.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He just said, this is what he said. I remember to this day what he said. That I do remember. I don't know if it was six or five people, but this I do remember. That they did a good job. You got to have a scar the rest of your life And he left.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah. Remember, I gave you a little bit of introduction to my father, right? You know him now a little bit, right? Yeah.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm kind of glad too, and it just missed my eye, which, thank God, it's bad enough I have a scar match for me with a patch. I mean, it's enough that I got this freaking thing. And look, it goes all the way. It's pretty long. I don't know. I was out, and then somehow. I sensed like they had the curtain closed, you know, and it's amazing how vivid this is. And the curtains closed and I see a shadow, I felt her presence. I did, and I felt him. He's a powerful guy. And I felt him. And I just see like a shadow, you know. And all of a sudden the curtain gets pushed back. And I can't really see. It's dark and, you know, out of it. Not completely out of it and pushes the curtain back, comes in. and his hands even though it's all bandaged you know whatever but his hand surveys Felt safe It felt warm and safe.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I'm like, I said, just get me Dr. Atlas. And they say, we don't have time. No, no, no, no, no. You have to get Dr. Atlas. You have to get him. This was the, damn it, this was. You know what I mean? I finally freaking hit the number and I'm not getting paid. Well, I think it was 400, 200 inside, 200 outside, or whatever it was. A lot. Hey, look, after... After 50, that number doesn't matter no more, eight or whatever, 60, 70, 80, 90, whatever. So I was fortunate. I was fortunate. And of course, I was fortunate they told me afterwards that Miss Mikel literally by a centimeter. I mean, whatever. So then we wouldn't be having this conversation, obviously.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you're devoid of things that normally hold you back, that normally influence you in ways that are not of the influence, always positive influence, where you're in a pure place, where you're in a purely free place from all inhibitions, from fear, from anxiety, from joy. Joy can screw you up and you're free from all these things. And I'm in this place.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And whacked out here with fear. And there's nothing to worry about. Dr. Atlas is my father. So anyway, so they're taking me to the, and he said, we don't have time. I hear a couple things I remember. Don't have time. Take them to, and they take me to the U.S. public health hospital, Marine Hospital was called at the time, but U.S. Public Health. And it's in Stapleton. So it's close. Thank God. So they're taking me in. I hear the one on the radio, you know saying this stuff about, we got to move. We got to move. Start talking They told me don't talk. But I like to talk a lot, you know, and I'm so Again, fear there's no fear when a fear has been removed. The only time you really free in life, and I know that sounds absurd, but really, it is. It's the only time you're really free in life.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If we get there, Pops. So I hear the cops say we might lose them. And I'm laughing to myself. I'm not laughing because I'm not, again, I'm not John Wayne. John Wayne would have laughed. But lose, you guys are stupid. You know, I didn't say that. But I'm like, lose me. My father's the greatest doctor in the freaking world. There's not no worry about you people all uptight.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I had no choice. I got introduced in a crash course and they put me in ambulance. And this is what I remember to your point. I'm sorry I took so long to get to it. I am, although I'll probably do it again before this conversation's over.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Forget about it. It was crazy. All I remember after that, I'll tell you a couple things I remember lights. Being put onto a stretcher, bounced around, rushed. I felt everyone's anxiety except mine. I had none. But I felt everyone's anxiety, everyone's fear. Like it was all around me. It was like, wow, this is interesting. It's kind of interesting. I know that's stupid. But, well, this is interesting.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I heard the bodego and a screaming, screaming, you know, like, you know, whatever. And everyone's screaming and there's chaos. And I'm like, I don't know. I'm calm. Weird. I'm like real calm. I'm just in this place. Things And all of a sudden, I hear Billy screaming, called an ambulance, called, you know, and nobody's doing none. Everyone's frozen. I'm starting to understand already. People get frozen in situations. The fear, fear, fear, fear, fear just paralyzes people. And I was going into a fear business. I was learning. I always learn. I was getting learning early PhD. Yeah, and all of a sudden, Genius. Billy, genius, really. He jumps up on a freaking counter, jumps over the counter, grabs the phone, calls 911, says a cop's been shot.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was the friendship tested? When was it uncomfortable to be a friend? And you know what the guy said? You can figure it out. You're a scientist. He said, He said, today. And today came for me. And today, today, today, today kept coming for me. Today. And that day my friend Billy, it turned out while I was fighting these whatever, five, six guys. And where was Billy? He was on the roof. He was my best friend. And so, anyway, they take me to the hospital. And here's the thing with my father. But one thing Billy did do for me when he got off the roof, thank God, he did. He dragged me into this bodega, laid me on the floor, and started putting towels. And the towels, I vaguely remember this, they filled up with blood. I mean, completely like drenched, like you put them under a shower.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Whatever happened in the twenty years other than chasing girls figured that one out fast chasing girls and drinking together and whatever else you're doing out on the street whatever gave you the inclination that Was a friend. He goes, when did he risk himself to be your friend? When was it dangerous to be your friend?”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Me, everyone, because you don't know about nobody to the attested. He goes, you know nothing. You know nothing until you know until something happens to test if they were really a friend. And they told me this story about a guy came to him and he was upset. What are you upset about? He goes, I'm upset because I just lost a friend after 20 years of friendship. We're not friends no more. So Cos looks at me. He goes. Ask you a question What made you think you have a friend's with? Now the guy gets insulted. He goes, Did you hear me He goes, I just told you 20 years I've been friends with this guy. Why would you say that to me? He said, well, I say it again. What makes you think he was your friend? He goes,”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, you know when I thought about him was Don't know who anyone is until they test it. And I learned that. She used to tell me, but I learned it. He used to say, I remember one time I was a 17 to 18 year old kid up there and, you know, whatever I thought I was. And he said, you got a lot of friends. And I said, yeah, because, you know, I was on the street hanging out with 100 kids at night sometimes on the street corner. So I was like. I didn't know too many people that hung out with 100 kids on the street, on a corner, on a Friday, Saturday night. And I was like, yeah, I got a lot of friends. He goes, really? He said, um, How about if I told you you might not have any? Most likely you don't have any. And he goes. And then he just started this thing. Said, everyone's gonna be tested. You?”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, not immediately. It took me a minute. I'm a slow learner. I put my hand up, right? Wouldn't you? I guess so. And it went into my face And that was it. It was gooey. It was warm and gooey, and I was like. I don't know what this means, but I don't want to know. But I think I know.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I made a decision. I actually think they do. And I actually said it's a double 07. He's got to flick it. But he's got to flick it. I got a split second. Either, like I said, either I do nothing, whatever, or I get to him before he gets it flicked. Went to get to it before he got flicked and just as I got close to her, I did him a favor. I walked right into a counter punch because I cooperated with him. I went right to him. And just as I practiced more than I did with the 07, apparently, because he was like, and, and, and, and, and, Anyway”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The only thing I had at that point in my life, in my stupid mind. A reputation That I would stand up to certain things. That was like, and that for me was worth something, whatever, because I didn't feel any worth to anything else. That was the only thing I felt a connection of worth to.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nothing to do with being brave. Really? It's got to do with just common sense in life. For me, whatever you're dealing with, it's done. Like, okay, deal with it. Go to bed. Whatever. But you do that, you know, that other thing. You're gone That never ends. This thing ends.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Got his foot. I can either not do nothing, which didn't seem like a great option. I couldn't run away. Because you got to live with yourself afterwards, and that's more difficult to live with. Whatever it is at that second, because that doesn't go away.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When he came out of this podcast, I knew what it was right away. It was weird because in the neighborhood, guys used to hang out. They went into this, you know, they get into fads right on the streets. And they went to at that time, they went to this cheap knife, but they thought it was, well, we thought it was cool. It was a 007. And the cool thing, whatever, was that you could flick. You could learn. And I learned how to flick, you know, but I never carried a knife. But when my friends would have it, I would just, you learn how to, you could flick it open. Not a switch plate, but flick it with your wrist. And I was like, here I am in the middle of this freaking fight. And all of a sudden, oh, this is a 07, you know? And so I'm like, you got to make a decision, you know.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We went to neighborhood. The neighborhood we grew up that I hung out and he grew up in, Billy. He came from the project. And we got into a thing where we somebody cut us off. We cut them off, you know, jumped out to fight. And, you know, Turned out that it's like five or six has that been two of us. We fought right on the side, right there. Only about a block from where I used to hang out. And maybe a buck and a half. And right in front of like a Spanish bodega. And it really does happen in slow motion. I actually saw the guy. He was fighting the guys that I had to fight. And then all of a sudden I was able to get one guy out of the way a little bit. I really, I noticed the guy go into his pocket. And I knew why he was going into his pocket, you know.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“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 get 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 and do. And then it came almost to a crash doing all that, you know, winding up in Rikers Allen 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. I was out on that day, you know, with the guys that I grew up with now, you know, the guys from the projects, as I described. And I was with one of them. He's dead now. So I was with him and we were.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Poor to be poor. You don't have to be deprived of certain things to be deprived. At least to think you're deprived. And I was pouring away that I didn't have the only thing I wanted to have him. So here I Here I am, where I'm out there doing these things. And what made me dangerous than some of these psychologists? I was a psychopath too, I guess, the way it was behaving. But some of these psychopaths that really had nothing. Really, they obviously would kill you. 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 they felt it. I thought I was on a righteous path. I thought I had a right Because it was going to get me my father back. Why? Why? I mean, you know, you're a scientist, you couldn't figure this one out because”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Gravitated to that because I figured out later a little bit, but I wanted family. We were disjointed family. We were, you know, my father was a doctor. He didn't have time for nothing but being a doctor. I think when you granted something, you sacrificed something too. You know, when you really graded something 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 and I came to this realization on my own all by myself. I figured out I was really as dangerous, you know, these kids from the project, some of them, they got nothing. First of all, I learned you don't have to be.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was just running around doing stupid things, bad things. I heard people, some people physically, but I heard my family. That's BS. You only hurt yourself. That's a good way of. Alibi in it. But at some point the truth usually finds its way. I'd like it to look like I was just hurting myself, but wasn't, obviously. 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 hell was a very tough neighborhood called Stapleton. And most of the people down there on the corners wished they could get up to hell. And I wish I could get down the hill. So I went down the hill. And I hung out with all these friends that became lifelong friends. And, uh...”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It saved I was a stupid, violent kid that was angry, not exactly know why he 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 fights and I got this stupid thing from that.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was already in the boxing business. I didn't even know I didn't even know Madgemaking, very important. They mismatched. They made a mistake with the opponent. And so when we would be driving in the car, my father would be in a trance. And He wasn't ignoring me at all. He was just with his thoughts. He was wherever. He wasn't even here on the radio no more. I always wonder where he was. I did. So I asked someone 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? I said, I know you're somewhere. Where are you? What are you saying? I actually said, What do you see? And he said to me, I see what could be I see what it could be. And I'm like, oh.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just wrote what he told me. Told me generals, he told me times, he told me strategy. He told me about the winter that came and destroyed the Germans. And the Soviets were tough. And the Soviets were tougher than the Germans and Germans picked on the wrong opponent.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've missed them in moments when I'd like to know what to do. And, you know, I remember when I would drive with him on the house calls, he didn't listen to music. He was a guy, he read books to his... You've got older, he read books. Blood vessels broke in his eyes. He only read nonfiction books Science, he loved science, wars, generals. I mean, I cheated on a couple book reports because I didn't do the reading of the book the night before I had a freaking book report to put in dad. I got a book report to do on the war of Stalingrad. To prove Stalingran. And who the freak could tell you where you get an A? I got an A.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Made me realize that some of the deals I used to make with God were unrealistic. I was a kid, I used to make deals with God. Let me die before my father. And then you get older, you have kids, you're blessed. Why did you make that deal? You know what I mean? Thank you for not taking me up on”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One thing that was not allowed The greatest memory I have my father showing me love We were down in Florida at an airport and we were, I was born in Miami. Don't ask where I was passing through. And the rest of my family is born in New York stand now. And so I was supposed to go back with him, right? And I wanted to stay with my mother for whatever reason. And so. He, of course, conceded to it. And he's okay, you know, whatever, and very quiet, very. And there's a man who never showed emotion to anyone. I mean, for the most, you know, really. He just turned, kissed me on the forehead, and left. And I was like”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But if you can, if it's important, you notice. And this guy was important to me. I just was, I didn't know what a hero was. No clue. I love Mickey Mano. I love Willie Mays. I loved. I never, ever connected in my mind as heroes. Never. My father. I didn't connect it that way, but he.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think he ever articulated, ever verbalized that. But yeah, they don't hurt themselves. How does that work? Well, just basically they're going to be around people. They're not going to be alone. They're going to be around people. They're going to get fed. They're going to be warm, right? And it's going to be for three days, two, three days, whatever. And basically, it's a bridge. The funny thing is a 10-year-old, I wanted to be connected to. So I enlisted myself in a job when he used to drop them off. He would take them, get them in, right? And, um... And then the thing that I know again, he didn't say none, but you notice things. And if you care enough, you don't notice nothing if you don't care.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I don't remember because he didn't use the word suicide, but I got it. Like he basically, I forget how he said it, but I just got it. I don't know how I got. But I just got it like, so they don't hurt themselves. That's what came across”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, because it's the holidays I, why you put them in there? while the holidays are good for certain people and bad for others. And it was always before the holidays. It was before Christmas was whatever. And New Year's, whatever. And so I said, why? A said because they remind people, certain people of what they don't have. That other people enjoy the holidays because of what they have. Family, you know, whatever. And it reminds them that mine is that.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then he took him to Haspot, dropped him on. So, you know, I would ask questions if it was all over with. I'd say that they're sick. He goes, well, not in no way, whether you put them in the hospital. So he said, yeah, and he tried to explain things to me. You know, he would try, he didn't talk much unless you asked himself. And that kind of works. And, you know, don't talk unless someone asks you somet And he explained to me that he said, Said, well, why are you putting them in the hospital? Then, you know, and of course the sickness was the alcoholics, but why you put them, it wasn't an alcohol rehab, you know? So why you put him and it wasn't for the purpose to dry out. He wasn't trying to cure them. Let's put that far before we anoint him for sainthood. So I was like, we finally get to the point. Why do you put him in there?”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To go to Dorf, there's no, you know, and so I went on House Goes with him, and he did house calls, by the way, till he was 80 and $3. I mean, it was better than like McDonald's. You know what I mean? I mean, the deal. Three dollars and you got medicine, you got everything. But he used to, right around the holidays, there was just certain things that I didn't understand, but I understood later where we would just drive certain areas. And he just all of a sudden opened his door. He would pick up these homes and, you know, I'm 10 years old. You know, move over and move over, you know Whatever you can fit in three, four. You know, whatever it was.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He built two hospitals and he built two hospitals before the Veras Hattle Bridge in New York, connecting Brooklyn to Staten Island. And he built it so people could get proper hospital care that couldn't afford it, period. And everybody looked at him as eccentric. Yeah, because he would literally sneak patience, not sneak them in. He was Dr. Atlas. He could do what he wanted to a certain extent. But he would bring patience in without administering through administration. So there was no charge because, you know, they didn't have anything. There were street people. I remember being, my only way to be with my father was to go on house calls.”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you ask that question, you know, I remember because tomato when I was with him up in Gatskav all those years, he used to say to me, Teddy, you learn through osmosis. I believe that's true to that. If I know what osmosis is. But it sounds good. But I learned through osmosis with my father. He wasn't a big talker. He was, you know, he was a doer. When you're around someone who lives a certain kind of life and does certain things, it penetrates. I'm going to sound like an idiot right now because I'm being a son Was the greatest diagnostic doctor? I mean, if I say I ever know what that means, you know what I mean? Are you a doctor? You know what I mean? Like, what does that mean? But other people have told me this. Like just legendary stories”
2023-12-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #406 – Teddy Atlas: Mike Tyson, Cus D’Amato, Boxing, Loyalty, Fear & Greatness · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source