Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato
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Rating | : | 4.80 (848 Votes) |
Asin | : | B06XKL346M |
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Number of Pages | : | 277 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2017-04-10 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that D'Amato passed down to him and reflects on how the trainer's words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. From the former heavyweight champion and New York Times best-selling memoirist comes an intimate look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tyson's surrogate father. When Cus D'Amato first saw 13-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, "That's the heavyweight champion of the world." D'A
John Plowright said Behind every great boxer there’s a great trainer. Behind every great boxer there’s a great trainer: for Joe Louis it was Jack Blackburn, for Muhammad Ali it was Angelo Dundee, and for Mike Tyson it was Constantine (‘Cus’) D’Amato.D’Amato obviously featured heavily in Tyson’s candid autobiography ‘Undisputed Truth’, written with Larry Sloman. Its a manual on how greatness achieved. Amazon Customer This is the first REAL book on cus damato, both his work with mike as well as an extremely detailed account of his life fighting the mob while taking patterson to the title. This is a must read. As a fan of tyson and of cus, ive been waiting 20 years for this book to be written ever since reading about how cus wanted jose torres to write . David R said Phenomenal and insightful look into a great mind. This book was exhilarating and exceptionally well written. I have not read a book in some time, but avowed that I would read over 10 books this summer, starting with this one.The story jumps back and forth between the time that Cus D'Amato was training Mike in Catskill and the earlier periods of Cus's life. It details the life of the earl