"Cus D’Amato on how the most important lessons were not learned in the gym, but were learned at the dinner table:
'I never teach until I’ve spoken to the fighter. I have to first determine his emotional state, get his background, to find out what I have to do, how many layers I have to keep peeling off so that I get to the core of the person so that he can recognize, as well as I, what is there."
