Mike Tyson: “I had my oldest son, who was 16, telling me he wanted to become a professional boxer.” But stop there: you went to a private school! You can’t be a boxer, you’ve traveled to Europe, you’ve been around the world. You can’t be a fighter with it. Do you want to fight guys like me? Animals? I don’t want my children to go through that, it’s degrading. Boxing you do when you have nothing.
“It’s a lot of sacrifice, pain, suffering. I got the beatings so my kids didn’t have to. When I look at them, I see middle class kids, who went to school, who do what they want. Boxing means wanting to be the best, to dominate everyone. I don’t want to put that kind of pressure on them. “
Credits: Yoel Sosa munoz
