When I was a kid, I wanted to fight Joe Louis. But I think if I had seen Mike Tyson at that time, I would have said, 'Nah, I don't want to fight him.' He's deadly. He could have been one of the great heavyweight champions. But he goofed.
Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.
You have to treat everybody the right way. Otherwise, you'll have a short life. God bless.
The world knows me as the Raging Bull.
I purposely lost a fight to Billy Fox because they promised me that I would get a shot to fight for the title if I did.
There's no pensions for old prize fighters.
