Gerry Cooney Quotes

• 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 only hurts them. You must stay focused and work very hard at boxing.

  Gerry Cooney

  Hurt, Careers, Boxing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a small kid from Huntington, Long Island. I never imagined that anything like that would happen to me.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kids, Islands, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 King's guys I would be signed to him. I chose not to do that. In hindsight, that might have been a mistake.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Mistake, Fighting

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

  Gerry Cooney

  Regret, Fighting, Careers

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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.

  Gerry Cooney

  Careers, Champion, Three

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• By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

  Gerry Cooney

  Years, Careful, Old You

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I got messed up between my fight with Ken Norton and my fight with Larry Holmes; I got messed up with alcohol. I needed at least a year more experience, with three or four more fights before I fought Holmes. But I couldn't get any fights. Don King had all the contenders, and unless I signed myself over to him, I couldn't get a fight.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Fighting, Years

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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 through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Team, Moving

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• All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Safety, Boxing

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• Roberto Duran was the kind of guy who was a true fighter and you hardly see guys like that anymore.

  Gerry Cooney

  Guy, Fighter, Kind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like I say, boxing was on the floor, but it got back up.

  Gerry Cooney

  Boxing

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• Today I have a great life. I have three kids and a beautiful wife. I play golf every day. I give to charities. I'm in a lucky position.

  Gerry Cooney

  Beautiful, Kids, Golf

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• [Michael Spinks] didn't belong in the same ring as me, but I wasn't taking good care of myself because of drink and he beat me.

  Gerry Cooney

  Care, Drink, Beats

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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 was 15 and found his way to the gym. It gave me the opportunity to go and spend some time with him and work out in the gym.

  Gerry Cooney

  Brother, Dad, Home

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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 brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

  Gerry Cooney

  Love, Boxing, Laughing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Boxing, Dues

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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 Don King top heavyweights, so I was kind of kept out. His guys were getting three to four fights a year and I could only get one.

  Gerry Cooney

  Kings, Fighting, Years

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The way to beat the Klitschkos is to get inside, under the jab, and bang to the body. Do that for two or three or four rounds and then the hands will come down and then you turn them over. It's like chopping a tree down. These guys try to headhunt when they fight them and that won't work. But you back them up, the younger brother especially, and he loses heart.

  Gerry Cooney

  Brother, Heart, Fighting

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• I am a fight fan. I think boxing had its problems and kind of fell away for a while, but it's coming back strong .

  Gerry Cooney

  Strong, Fighting, Thinking

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• A lot of the athletes moved away from boxing, into UFC - which I think is really crazy, where they elbow to the head and knee to the jaw. I think that's really a barbaric sport - but boxing is coming back.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Crazy, Athlete

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• With the Klitschkos, though, unless someone comes around, they can stay where they are forever! The heavyweight division is lackluster, and it will be until someone comes along who can test them.

  Gerry Cooney

  Forever, Heavyweights, Division

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• I like the Klitschko boys, I think they're in a class of their own. I like Manny Pacquiao. All the super-middleweights are great.

  Gerry Cooney

  Boys, Thinking, Class

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• Gil Clancy told me to move around for six or seven rounds, but when you're a puncher and you catch someone, you got after them. And in that fight [with George Foreman in 1999] my timing was off and I got caught.

  Gerry Cooney

  Moving, Fighting, Six

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• Had I had another year, I think I would've beaten [ Harry Carpenter] - and Larry Holmes even said that himself; that if I'd had another year to get ready I'd have beaten him. Me and he are good friends today though, and that fight was a great moment for me. I lost, but then I had to move on and get on with my life.

  Gerry Cooney

  Moving, Good Friend, Fighting

  Source: www.boxing247.com

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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 choose, they'll need to really pay attention to it.

  Gerry Cooney

  Baseball, Country, League

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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