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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Probably not even a household name in his own house.

He's a nice guy. He's passed a couple of tests. He has a good amateur background, which is important. He's calm in the ring after fighting so long in the amateurs. He knows he can handle himself in certain situations.

Not there. He doesn't work his way in behind the jab, he doesn't punch to the body. Rather than work his way into position to throw punches -- and it is work -- he loads up with wide punches and long punches. The one thing he has retained is his power. But when he's loading up, he's vulnerable.

It's a terrible situation when the best I can say for some of these judges is that they're incompetent. Because the other alternative if they're not incompetent is that they're corrupt.