“I cannot go out a loser, Jack Johnson went out a loser. Sugar Ray went out a loser. Joe Louis went out a loser… I got to be that black man who gets out on top.”
“Five years ago my friend José Torres told me that Cus D'Amato had found a troubled 14-year-old kid from Brooklyn who is going to become the heavyweight champion of the world”
“Toward the end, he thought perhaps that he had the perfect heavyweight at last in young Michael Tyson: "I have no doubt he'll be a champion. But more than that, he might be a great fighter”
“Though Tyson lacks Muhammad Ali’s inspired narcissism… for all his reserve, his odd, even eerie combination of shyness and aggression, his is a wonderfully marketable image.”
