Gerry Cooney Quotes
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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.
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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is…
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Growing up training, I use to get up so early I would wave to the garbage men going by. So, I had this relationship with…
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I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.
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You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four…
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I grew up in a big Irish, Catholic family. My dad was a pretty rough guy. So one of my brothers left home when he…
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By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.
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Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
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I am involved in minor league baseball. I go around the country speaking to troubled youths, trying to help them understand that whatever path they…
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Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He…
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Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.
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You have a small period of time when you can perfect your career and become good at it. A lot of guys get distracted, which…
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I lost three times in my career. Losing to Holmes I could deal with, because I lost to a true champion.
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I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away.
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I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.
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If you look at my career, towards the end you will see I was fighting like once a year. I was not part of the…
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The bad press came because they thought I should fight more. I couldn't get the fights because if I would sign to fight one of…
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When that bell rang, I wanted to go out there and do my thing.
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