Don King, on Mike Tyson


"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
He went to prison, not to Princeton."



"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music
and the dancers hit each other."

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Richard Pryor on boxing





https://youtu.be/vCvMIWmdqTU

Richard Pryor Live - Wanted + video (1978)
Leon Spinks/ Muhammad Ali / Keeping in Shape

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Shaun Assael



Shaun Assael
@shaunassael
Author, "The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin And Heavyweights." Now a feature documentary on
Showtime.
New Yorkshaunassael.comJoined February 2009


Shaun Assael

http://shaunassael.com/

Shaun Assael is an American author and award-winning investigative journalist. He is the author of four books that deal with sports, crime and culture. 


Wikipedia


Shoulda, short for should have (and not should of, which lexies call a variant but I call a mistake), carries a sense of correctness or obligation; coulda implies a possibility, and woulda denotes conditional certainty, an oxymoron: the stated intent to have taken an action if only something had not intervened. 






https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Assael









Friday, August 19, 2022

Oleksandr Usyk’s outfit for the Anthony Joshua rematch weigh-in

 AJ had his moments that would look good on a highlight reel.  Ustk had 350 amateur fights and learned how to win rounds,  He does superhuman things to avoid punches and to throw counters.  He is a study in "hit and don't get hit".




Oleksandr Usyk’s outfit for the Anthony Joshua rematch weigh-in…

Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups






The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups  
- Emily Saul 



https://youtu.be/hngDhaD6UaY

This talk by Emily Saul, Sport Psychology + Performance Coach, explores the lessons that she learned from 10 years of practicing pushups, every day. 

She introduces the value of having a practice: an ongoing and consistent relationship with a repeated action, like she has through pushups. 

This practice, in the form of habit, routine, and/or ritual creates a space for learning, for developing personal growth, and for positively impacting mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, and ability to overcome challenge. 

The talk offers five of the most relevant and applicable lessons for building a practice of your own.  

Sport Psychology + Performance Coach, Licens
ed Mental Health Counselor. Founder of E Saul Movement



THE 5 TOP LESSONS LEARNED

1. Let obstacles become opportunities: resistance and challenges are not bad - they are opportunities to learn
2. Not doing something perfectly does not mean you are failing: every little step/ every rep is part of a bigger goal
3. Motivation is directly related to meaning: frame your challenge around something that has purpose in your life.
4. If you want to keep doing something make it regular and give it structure: And if you want to keep enjoying something make it unusual and give it variety
5. There is a version of impressive things that works for you: if there is something that inspires you and has meaning for you practice being good at it day after day