Gerry Cooney Quotes

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Gerry Cooney

Profession : Athlete

Birth : August 4, 1956

Fighting is not something you can just turn off.

Gerry Cooney

Maybe I'll go to acting school. Acting is like boxing, you know.

Gerry Cooney

Every Saturday and Sunday, when the other guys were out having a good time at the mall, I was at home working in the garden.

Gerry Cooney

When I hurt Norton, I got scared. I looked to the referee. But in the same sense, you're a fighter: you gotta have the killer instinct.

Gerry Cooney

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

Gerry Cooney

You go through pain. You feel uncomfortable, uncomfortable, uncomfortable until you change. I acquired a different outlook.

Gerry Cooney

It took me to be 33 to start to know how to fight.

Gerry Cooney

I spent a lot of time dwelling on yesterday, and it did me no good.

Gerry Cooney

Some have made boxing a terrible thing to be around.

Gerry Cooney

They said if I'd fight a ranked contender, I'd get a title shot. I did that, and the next day they changed the rules.

Gerry Cooney

I think I make people laugh, and that's good in life.

Gerry Cooney

Some of the things written about me hurt, but there is nothing I can do about it.

Gerry Cooney

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

Gerry Cooney

I either had to concentrate on fighting, or I had to help my family. I chose my family. I love my mom; I love my family.

Gerry Cooney

I've always wanted to fight. I love to fight.

Gerry Cooney

I don't care about the critics. I took a lot of nonsense. I got stuck with silly labels like 'White Hope.' What about other guys like Tex Cobb - they never had those labels?

Gerry Cooney

Sometimes you get so frustrated that things aren't working out, you say, 'Let me step away for a while.' But the fire still burns.

Gerry Cooney

I know I can fight; that's the only thing that matters to me.

Gerry Cooney

Boxing gave me a voice to express the anger I felt for where I came from.

Gerry Cooney

I saw my brother have an altercation one time. He hit a guy with a left hook to the body and a right hand to the chin. He not only knocked the guy out, but out of wind. That stuck with me. It scared me.

Gerry Cooney