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#524: Boxing Trainer Teddy Atlas on What It Means to Be a Man

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Importance of Being a Father

A lot of my kids had no fathers. It's not an accident. That's why they came to the gym. They were looking to find the replacement for what a father would have gave him. As a trainer, you become a psychologist without going to school. Because if you don't understand the psyche of a human being, you better get the freak out of this business. I'll give you an example, an extreme example. I had a kid named Maimo. This kid came to me in Catskill Gym because he was getting picked on his lunch money,. He was saying he had no father.

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