TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, once hailed as the baddest man on the planet, urged the Alabama football team in a raw, impassioned speech to not make the same mistakes that he made to derail his career and send his life spiraling out of control.
"It was all an illusion," Tyson told Crimson Tide players on Thursday night in his familiar high-pitched, lispy voice. "I had no reason to show love to anybody. The more I hurt people, the more people loved me. The more I knocked guys out, the more I broke their ribs, broke their eye sockets, the more people loved me.