“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.”

But you’ve got to hear Mike Tyson’s accent