20/03/2022
“Some fighters tell me, “..I can’t do this because last night my wife yelled at me.. she caught me with a girl...” Look, I don’t wanna hear it alright, I don’t wanna hear it.
When my father died, I went to the funeral, and then I went to the gym. I didn’t tell nobody. A lot of people said, you shouldn’t have gone to the gym.
You talk about commitment. Maybe this story explains some of it.
We had little Todd, he was our brother, he was born with problems..he was mentally impaired. He was a beautiful kid, I remember him. He was very loving, he used to jump into my arms when I came home.
When he was 5 years old, Todd had to get surgery for problems with his heart. It was an open heart surgery. My father was a doctor, so Todd had the surgery at my father’s hospital. He didn’t perform the surgery obviously, some other surgeons did.
My father was a Hungarian, Jewish background. He didn’t have time for religion, he only had time for living and healing people. He was dedicated to the life of a doctor. As a doctor he hid his emotions. When Todd went for surgery, he died on the operating table.
The night of Todd’s funeral, my father got a phone call on his answering service. He had a request for a house call at 2 am in the morning. His patient’s daughter had a child who was very very sick. They didn’t know that his son was buried that day. My father went to do the house call, on the day that his son got buried.
You can take it the way you want to take it, maybe some people hold it against him when I say this, but I know the kind of man my father was. So when people tell me that they can’t keep a commitment because something happened, it doesn’t go with me.
The day after I buried my father, I went to the gym, and I trained Michael Moorer. Because that was what I was doing, that was my job.”
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Excerpts from Teddy Atlas’ interview with Joe Rogan on JRE #1173
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