Mike Tyson on What Cus D'amato Taught Him | Joe Rogan

You know, so I did you say my mentor custom model his objective was to think of nothing you're nothing Nothing's nothing but the objective the job and I was a psychological warfare, you know, nothing matters You're nothing nothing My only thing that matters is the objective and getting through accomplishing that objective by going to these methods of boxing Do you ever stop and think about how fortunate was you ran into that guy? Listen, um to this day. I really don't understand that. So how did this happen? Because so many to listen by the time I was born he was 66 years old by the time I was born. Yeah crazy So many people could you know can't even explain it. It's a magnificent individual He was an amazing guy an amazing part of boxing and with a unprecedented grasp of the mindset required for combat sports That was the thing that always really stood out about him Like he was a guy that was so he was so well versed in the mindset I would listen to his his speeches that he would talk when he would talk about you and he would talk about boxing We talked about fear and about a fear can be like a fire can cook your feet your food Or it can burn your house down and you have to you have to control it and when he would describe it Like it would be so enlightening. He was such a man of wisdom that when he would describe things they would sink in they would They would somebody could say the same thing But they were with him. He had so much life. He was so many happy the psychiatrist He was a doctor the father the mother, you know, he was just all around that individual Yeah, and with an amazing knowledge of boxing and for a guy like you it was almost like it was ordained And that's what always said was meant for me to meet this guy Cuz I had no way in a million years everybody say, you know where you gonna be champion too small Yeah, you're too sure no way this guys are too big for you You know, this is the greatest fight ever lived this and there's always saying this one man. I'm like, oh god This guy's just super me. I never thought I could you know me achieve what he was saying you think he was saying was you so Gigantic in my eyes at the yeah Yeah, I mean When it all happened and it turned out that he was true and you have to absorb all this when you're 20 years old You know, it's I would say this about Justin Bieber And I don't think Justin Bieber nearly had to deal with what you had to deal with You're your experience was so much crazier because you were not just an incredibly famous guy You were the baddest man on the planet. So there was like an aura to you everywhere you went people wanted to see you You know 50 year old men don't give a fuck about Justin Bieber, you know, no disrespect He's a great guy a great singer, but it's not he's like young girls for young girls that guy's unbelievably famous But he's he's been famous since he was a little kid like who when people hear Amazing well people hear about him going insane I'm like, of course he's going insane you have no idea what it would be like to be him and to be 17 years old and Girls literally trying to break into his house to throw pussy at him. They're coming down chimneys. They're flying in on parachutes They're doing anything they can they just want to be around him