Tyson

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Tyson: I was just a kid when I first got to see Muhammad Ali.

I saw the way people looked up to him.

I saw their smiling faces

and I said to myself,

"That's what I wanna be.

I wanna be champ of the world."

Kid: Wait up, Mikey!

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Just give it. Shh!

Freeze!

Don't shit in your drawers!

Boy: It's just Dog.

Damn, man, what took you so long?

All right.

There they are!

Go in there and do it!

Boy: Do it, man.

Fuck them up, Mikey.

Showtime!

Players: All right, man, go go!

Move over, move over.

All right. I got you.

Yeah. All right, watch him.

Watch out!

Come on, man! Come on!

Shit. Shit!

Hurry up, Tito! Come on!

Woman: Somebody call the police!

Woman on TV: Oh, I know, darling. I'll sew it all together.

Man on TV: And these shoes... Rodney, is Mom home?

Woman on TV: I'm taking them down this afternoon.

Man on TV: And my gray slacks.

Go to the cleaners. Why not let me take care

of these chores just as I have been for the past 20 years?

Has it been that long?

Yes. You two are going to be late.

You'd better hurry. We're hurrying. We're hurrying.

Goodbye, darling. Bye, dear.

Bye, Mom. Bye, sweetie.

Come home early. I'm planning a surprise for tonight.

Denise, is Mom home?

Do it look like it?

Various judges: Michael Gerald Tyson,

you have been found guilty of aggravated assault...

...guilty: assault and battery...

...possession of a deadly weapon,

grand theft...

...aggravated robbery...

...guilty as charged.

...receipt of stolen goods

...resisting arrest...

Michael Tyson... ...assault with a deadly weapon...

Rooney: What's this kid's name?

Atlas: How the hell should I know?

I thought you talked to Bobby.

All he said was he had a kid we should look at.

Cus: Not Bobby Stewart?

Yeah, from the Tryon Detention Facility.

Great, that's all we need,

another juvenile delinquent.

Rooney: So, what'd this kid do?

It's more a case of "What didn't he do?"

Arrested like 40 times before he turned 12.

40 times?! Jeez.

Even Al Capone wasn't arrested no 40 times!

Uh-oh, sounds like a baddy.

No shit. Don't he got a mother?

'Course he's got a mother. Comes a point

even a mother's gotta toss in the towel.

Bobby don't expect me to take this kid into my home, does he?

Look, Bobby don't expect nothin'.

All he said was take a look at him.

You all right, Cus?

Yeah, fine, go ahead, go ahead. I'll catch up with you.

C'mon, Kevin.

Ugh!

That him?

Five-nine, 180 pounds.

That's him.

He's strong!

Yeah, I was expecting some scrawny little punk.

Jesus. What've you been feeding them kids, Bobby?

The usual, steroids and Cocoa Puffs.

Ugh!

Not much for style, but, Jesus, he can hit.

Fuckin'-A he can hit.

A goddamn kid hittin' like Joe Frazier.

He's faster than shit!

Ooh!

Take it easy, a second.

What's your name, son?

Mike.

Mike what?

Mike Tyson.

Mike Tyson. Well, go ahead. Do what you do.

So what do ya think?

What do I think?

I think he hits with bad intentions. That's what I think.

Come on, come on.

Jerk!

There you go!

This is our side, over here.

Now, back to what I was sayin'.

Oh, yeah.

Don't worry about bein' scared goin' into a fight.

It's when you ain't scared-- that's the time to worry.

Fear is the friend of every good and reasonable athlete.

All right, slow up.

Yeah, you see that house over there?

That's your new home, Mike.

All right, guys. Make a right here! A right!

Careful. Good. Here we are.

C'mon in, make yourself at home.

Camille!

I want you to meet this woman.

Come here, say hello to Mike.

Mike's a fighter. Come on.

Mike, this is Camille Ewald.

Say, "Pleased to meet you."

I'm pleased to meet you, ma'am.

Humpf! It's all right.

Don't get sore. I know it's another mouth to feed,

but we could use that extra $200 a month around here.

C'mon, I'll show you to your room.

Is Camille your wife?

Not exactly, it's her house.

I don't think she wants me here.

What, that?

No, she's just a little shy, that's all.

Will you look at this!

I tell you, if I catch the bum who did this,

he's gonna be a couple of teeth short of a smile, believe me.

See, I got a half a dozen fighters stayin' here,

it's important that everybody be neat.

This'll be your room here.

We gotta get you an alarm clock.

Who ate my ice cream?

Don't you ever let me catch you eatin' my ice cream! Not never!

What's the difference between a hero and a coward?

There ain't no difference.

Inside they're both exactly alike.

They're both scared of dying or gettin' hurt.

But it's what the hero does that makes him a hero.

It's what the other guy doesn't do that makes him a coward.

Shit!

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Cus: When two men step into a ring,

one and only one deserves to win...

When you step in the ring,

you gotta know, you deserve to win. 90, 10 more.

You gotta know destiny owes you victory,

because you trained harder than your opponent,

you sparred harder, you ran farther

and you got up earlier.

I know you ain't sleepin'.

I know you can hear me!

Always keep your chin tucked down into your chest.

I don't care if you're running road work

or just walking around school or watchin' TV.

Keep that chin tucked down and your eyes lookin' up and out.

Cus: One word describes Rocky Marciano...

tenacity. Only 187 pounds,

but to this day he remains the only undefeated heavyweight champ. How?

Because he wouldn't imagine that he could lose.

He would never even allow the concept of defeat,

to enter his mind.

Don't watch gloves, watch the chest!

You wait for a glove to move, you're dead.

When the chest flexes, you bob!

Joe Louis may have been quiet on the outside,

but on the inside, he was pure rage.

He was a negro in a white man's world and he hated it,

up and down the street 24 hours a day.

Cus: Stay in constant motion.

You're head ain't never again where he last seen it.

See, you give him a target here

and by the time he swings, it ain't there anymore.

When you move, counter, five to the ribs.

Hop! Bop!

Four-one upstairs, got it?

All right, here we go.

If you don't get hit, you don't lose, it's as simple as that.

Once you learn to stay low and tuck behind your gloves,

and in constant motion, no one's gonna be able to land nothin'.

Lies and deceit, subterfuge, that's what we deal in.

Don't ever let anyone know your real intentions.

Champion fighters are champion liars,

best in the world.

Keep the camera moving, 'cause I'm kinda fast.

Back off of him, just keep boxin'.

Who ate my ice cream?!

Who ate my ice cream?!

Who ate my ice cream, damn it!

Mike.

What's up?

Mike's mom passed away.

Oh, jeez.

Listen, he's gotta take a bus down to Brooklyn,

drive him into town, will you? Sure.