15 Quotes by Teddy Atlas

If you have an advantage, you have to take advantage of it.

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Don't you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be? You don't just say it when you feel good. You don't just say it when you're not tired. You don't do it just when it's not sunny. You do it every day of your life. You do it when it hurts to do it, when it's the last thing in the world you wanna' do, when there are a million reasons not to do it. You do it because you're a professional.

It gives you a measure of Tyson’s ambition: He was so determined to take what he needed from Bobby Stewart that, to prove to his prospective mentor that he was sincere, this supposedly uncontrollable kid became a model inmate.

It’s easy to slip back. You have to be disciplined.

Don’t you understand anything about commitment, about being a pro, about sticking with what you say you wanna be?