I guess the Iraqis can be proud of their freedom then“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.”
Tyson said:One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died. I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand - he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile ******.
"He was screaming like my wife."
"I try to catch him right on the tip of the nose, because I try to push the bone into the brain."
(Etienne post-fight interview with Showtime Championship Boxing's Jim Gray)Jim Gray: 'Mike were you really sick this week? What was the problem?' Tyson: "I broke my back."'What do you mean by that?' Tyson: "My back is broken." 'What part, a vertebrae or a portion?' Tyson: "No. Spinal." 'You did that in sparring?' "No i did it by a motorcycle accident the doctors discovered..I was doin my situps, 2500 a day with my 20 pound weight and one day i couldn't move anymore and i just axed the doctor what's wrong and he said um believe it or not your back is broken slightly.
The drama of Cuss D'Mato (spelling?) turning a street kid into the best boxer living (albeit, for 5 minutes) and his COMPLETE failure once turning away from both the boxing and the personal principles Cuss instilled in him would be great.Dude. Someone should make a movie out of his fricking life after he croaks. It's like a fricking Street Fighter/Virtua Fighter/Tekken character's background not a real life man.
I'd like to see that.There was an HBO movie made back in 1995, but that's only half his story now. I wish they would put it out on DVD. George C. Scott was a badass in that movie.
(Etienne post-fight interview with Showtime Championship Boxing's Jim Gray)Jim Gray: 'Mike were you really sick this week? What was the problem?' Tyson: "I broke my back."'What do you mean by that?' Tyson: "My back is broken." 'What part, a vertebrae or a portion?' Tyson: "No. Spinal." 'You did that in sparring?' "No i did it by a motorcycle accident the doctors discovered..I was doin my situps, 2500 a day with my 20 pound weight and one day i couldn't move anymore and i just axed the doctor what's wrong and he said um believe it or not your back is broken slightly"