LOVE IS THE GREATEST

Mike Tyson: ”One day he looked at me and said, ‘Would you like to change your life?’ I nodded yes, ‘From what I’ve seen and if you listen to me, with no distractions and not allowing people to mess your head up, you will be the youngest heavyweight champion of all time.’ I was thirteen years old and he thought I was invincible! Of course, I told him that I wanted to be the world champion, and he liked that, But mostly it was Cus doing all the talking. He’d talk to me about my feelings and then he’d tell me why I was feeling that way. Cus wanted to reach me at the root. It wasn’t just about the physical aspects of boxing: it was getting at the mental side why a fighter got bubble guts, why our minds play tricks on us so that some thing seems more difficult than it is. I didn’t understand everything he was saying, but I did. Cus knew how to talk my language. Cus was really a street kid who had improved himself as a person.” 🥊🏆