Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato

Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato

"[Iron Ambition]Â spells out D'Amato's techniques for building a champion from scratch." â€“Â Wall Street Journal

From the former heavyweight champion and New York Timesâ€“bestselling author comes a powerful look at the life and leadership lessons of Cus Dâ€™Amato, the legendary boxing trainer and Mike Tysonâ€™s surrogate father.
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When Cus Dâ€™Amato first saw thirteen-year-old Mike Tyson spar in the ring, he proclaimed, â€œThatâ€™s the heavyweight champion of the world.â€ Dâ€™Amato, who had previously managed the careers of world champions Floyd Patterson and JosÃ© Torres, would go on to train the young Tyson and raise him as a son. D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
Â Â Â In Tysonâ€™s bestselling memoir Undisputed Truth, he recounted the role Dâ€™Amato played in his formative years, adopting him at age sixteen after his mother died and shaping him both physically and mentally after Tyson had spent years living in fear and poverty. In Iron Ambition, Tyson elaborates on the life lessons that Dâ€™Amato passed down to him, and reflects on how the trainerâ€™s words of wisdom continue to resonate with him outside the ring. The book also chronicles Cusâ€™s courageousÂ fight against the mobsters who controlled boxing, revealing more than weâ€™ve ever known about this singular cultural figure.
Country USA
Manufacturer Blue Rider Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2017-05-30
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Blue Rider Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2017-05-30
Format	Kindle eBook

Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato

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